Sara Donati is the pen name of Rosina Lippi, a former academic and tenured university professor. Since 2000 she has been writing fiction full-time, haunting the intersection where history and storytelling meet, wallowing in 19th-century newspapers, magazines, street maps and academic historical research. She is the internationally bestselling author of the Wilderness series (INTO THE WILDERNESS, DAWN ON A DISTANT SHORE, LAKE IN THE CLOUDS, FIRE ALONG THE SKY, QUEEN OF SWORDS and THE ENDLESS FOREST), as well as THE GILDED HOUR, the first in a new series following the descendants of characters from the Wilderness series. She lives between the Cascades and Puget Sound with her husband, daughter, Jimmy Dean (a Havanese), and Max and Bella (the cats).

Books by Sara Donati

Fire Along the Sky

by Sara Donati

The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family's mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left. For their daughter has come home without her husband and without her son...and with a story of loss and tragedy that she can't bear to tell. Little does Hannah realize that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge ever.