My French family will put up a terrible fuss, said Sarah anxiously. Pierre might even summon his fellow officers and do something violent.Eben grinned. Not if I have Huron warriors behind me.
More clumsily,he put his arm around her and tried to hug. They were definitely amateurs at showing affection.
Last time she had been here, the room had been pastel, romantic and soft. Now it was icily white. It was urban, out of a slick magazine, as if some cold, successful woman lived here with two possessio...
Jared never prayed, because the idea of a loving God seemed out of sync with the facts of the world.
Janie and Jodie looked at him as if he were an out-of-date computer chip.
I'll take you to Mickey D's, said Sean. I'll buy you a hamburger. Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. And fries, Sean said. And a vanilla milkshake....
He shrugged and sipped his root beer. It came in a bottle. He liked holding a bottle to his lips much more than a can. He was exhausted from worrying about everybody.
Foster children could pack quickly. Every move Matt had ever made took only minutes, whereas when real people moved, they spent weeks getting ready, filling huge vans and leaving a trail of cardboard...
Eben would rather have had that knife pierce his chest and kill him than live to acquire an Indian vocabulary, but it was something to do and it kept Mercy cheerful.
But I found my family.I found the right thing to do.I found the way home.
Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.
Barbies are warm and tan and always the same, thought Janie, but real people are not always the same.
What do you mean--your family? he said. Joseph, you do not have a in this terrible place. You have a master. Do not confuse savages who happen to give you food with Joseph’s face hardened. They are m...
Girl! English, eh? What is your name? Indians stole you, eh? I’ll send news to your people.His excellent speech meant that he did a lot of trading with the English. It meant, Mercy prayed, that he lik...
Mercy herself was so hungry, she was faint. Tannhahorens would despise her for it. She tried to keep her feet from weaving and her tears from falling, but she could not.Tannhahorens took her hands and...
I will be brave, she told herself. I will stay strong. she said to Him. She had never needed Him more, but in this cold white wilderness, she could not feel His presence.The snowball fights ended.The...
Eben’s moccasins were lined with thick black fur. His boots were abandoned at the edge of the trail. Eben thought of Deerfield men getting this far in pursuit and finding a hundred pairs of shoes.
She stared at the dark shimmer of glass that faced the street. The Clares never pulled curtains. They were comftorable with the dark. But there was another kind of dark. The darkness of minds full of...
She had read a million times that you could not make your boyfriend into something else, so fine—Kathleen would make herself into something else.
Lord, it’s only been six months since the last time I was a total jerk, thought Reeve. Am I going to be a total jerk again?