"The Spirit Keeper"

"The Spirit Keeper" is the first novel by K. B. Laugheed and is the story of Katie O'Toole, the 13th child of Irish immigrants living in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.  Katie has had a difficult life and is thinking of leaving her family and returning to Philadelphia where her family lived before taking up farming.

Her life changes, though, when savages show up slaughtering or enslaving her family.  When she is offered the opportunity to travel willingly with two male savages to the western part of the country, Katie sees it as an opportunity for a new life.  Little does she know how difficult the travel will be and that she'll encounter adventures she never could have dreamed of as well as discovering her own strengths.  What Katie finds in addition to adventure is a new way of life that leads to loss but also to love.  

I certainly hope Laugheed will write other novels because I look forward to reading more of her work.  pazt