While it's unlikely that real-life settlers would have escaped unscathed from the consequences of such unrelieved carelessness or ignorance, the family's bumblings will open readers' minds to the hazards and privations of the pioneer life.

The concept of hapless pioneers is deliciously intriguing and probably very accurate their descendants are the legions of Americans who hammer their thumbnails and get lost on the interstate. Haunted by the dark shadows of their past, Vito is intent on revenge. Vito's latest business merger brings him face-to-face with his new employee-a troubled-eyed Ava. The best part of this novel is where the family, alone in the wilderness, waits in vain for neighbors to show up to help them build a cabin-they come a day late, delayed because one of the families' houses has burned down. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Since her release from prison, Ava has agonised over her fragmented memories from that night-her misguided play for Vito, his humiliating rejection and then.nothing. Do you like it I love it, she confessed, ensnared by smouldering dark. Meanwhile, her parents accidentally drop Mem off the back of the wagon and drive off for several hours before they realize it, chop down a tree and almost kill their children, forget to properly lash down their wagon so they lose half their possessions, and nearly get swept away in a river after jumping in. The castle looks fantastic, Vito informed her, sliding lithely into bed beside her. In migrating from Connecticut to upstate New York in 1815, 11-year-old Mem is called upon to save her mother by hitting an attacker over the head with a tree limb, save an old man who gets bit by a rattlesnake, save herself after she gets lost in the wilderness, save her brother from a black bear and save her pig from wolves.

Mem's family is hit by the Murphy's Law of pioneering-if anything can go wrong, it will.

Unlocking Her Innocence by Lynne Graham