Joann Hague

Dancing Through Fire Joann Hague

A white woman, wed to a stranger and sent to work with him in the wilderness by faith.  A Native American girl forced into womanhood before she is ready.  They are oil and water.  Humility and pride.  Self-doubt and arrogance.
 
Yet the woman Sarah Himmel and the girl Wind Maiden cajole, help, and battle their way to an unlikely friendship amid the multi-partied conflicts of the American Revolution in the Ohio wilderness.  Like those around them, the women are pawns of various parties -- English, American and tribal -- all hungering for power.  That hunger will end in a shameful and little known historical event, the calculated massacre of peaceable Christian Indians by white men.
 
Against this backdrop, two women battle with their own demons.  Sarah, exhausted by missionary work she does from dawn to dark, fears she can never match her husband's zeal - or win his love. Wind Maiden yearns for a warrior instead of her gentle husband and is ruined by her rashness. 
 
Through childbirth, disgrace, and unspeakable brutality, two women discover shared truths:  Love is hard to recognize.  Faith is elusive.  True friendship survives all tests.