Rachel Rain Martin

On the Bluffs of Cane Creek Rachel Rain Martin

Adaline Kelly was fourteen years old when her family's covered wagon overturned near Poplar Bluff, Missouri, killing everyone but her. Alone in a vast prairie, Adaline soon stumbles upon a Band of Cherokee Indians who are being forcibly removed from their home in North Georgia. She is taken in by the Tribe's Medicine Woman and Adaline quickly adapts to the ways of her adopted people as she walks "The Trail" with them to Oklahoma. Two men vie for Adaline's hand, Balik, the handsome grandson of the Chief and later, John Hill, a fur trader from back east. Adaline chooses one, but her husband has a secret to keep and diabolical means to retain it. She tells her story in first person with wit, love, anguish and victory from her beginnings in Gainesville, Georgia to her final destiny, On the Bluffs of Cane Creek.