The Fearing Time - Paperback

by Lise Hicks (Author)

New Mexico, 1864. After being starved out of her homeland, twelve-year-old Steady Wind is stolen by Mexican slavers on The Long Walk to Fort Sumner, and sold at auction. Though she and her four-year-old sister, Cactus Flower, are able to stay together through an act of grace, her troubles aren't over. She's given a new name. She's forced to convert to Catholicism. She must speak Spanish. And even as she schemes to find her parents and return to her traditional way of life, her sister begins to forget.

As Steady Wind finds ways to adapt, the Civil War ends and the nation looks westward. When circumstances drastically change once again, she must choose what to cling to-and what to let go of.