A Long Time in the Wilderness

Despite warnings from her family and her own common sense in the year 1905 Neva Walters a pretty southern farm girl and traveling organ teacher hastily married Neal Larkin a mysterious stranger who crashed her party.</P><P>Savagely beaten on her wedding night Neva soon learned she was a captive in the male dominated Larkin family where unusual circumstances ruled escape not an option.</P><P>Effie Neal's mother nursed Neva back to health and became her mentor through her journey as a Larkin Woman.</P><P>Neva despite a future of pain depravation and near helplessness strived to liberate the women and children from the grip of the Larkin men.</P><P>Neva was truly a long time in the wilderness and her struggle leads the reader on many unexpected twists and turns to a surprising end.</P>