
Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. I’m going to attempt to summarise each of the blurbs for the rest of this article so that you can get a feel for what the series is about.ĭecember of 1792. They’re also multi-generational, spanning decades. The stories are rich in detail and inter-connecting back stories with a heavy cast of characters. This is not a series that you can follow without having read each book.

While I loved all six books in the series, book 5, Queen of Swords, is my ultimate favourite. They were, of course, definitely worth the wait! There are six books in total and the series is now finished with all titles available in gorgeous matching covers. I was over-joyed to see the promo for the second instalment advertised in the back cover, less so when I realised I would have to wait two years for it, and for each one thereafter. To my utter delight, Into the Wilderness proved itself a most enjoyable read, containing all of the necessary ingredients required for a good historical fiction with romantic elements. But even back then I loved historical fiction, as my friend well knew, and thick books had never put me off either.

I’d never heard of Sara Donati before, nor had I heard of Diana Gabaldon, whose high praise on the cover conveyed much about this mystery book’s contents. I received the first book in The Wilderness Series, Into the Wilderness, as a thank you gift from a friend.
