Answer Creek

From the award-winning author of <i>Eliza Waite</i> comes a gripping tale of adventure and survival based on the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party on their 2200-mile trek on the Oregon-California Trail from 1846 to '47. <p/> Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California. After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a month she--along with eighty-one other members of the Donner Party--finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains stuck there for the entirety of a despairing blizzard-filled winter. Forced to eat shoe leather and blankets to survive will Ada be able to battle the elements--and her own demons--as she envisions a new life in California? <p/> Researched with impeccable detail and filled with imagery as wide as the western prairie <i>Answer Creek</i> blends history and hearsay in an unforgettable story of challenging the limits of human endurance and experiencing the triumphant power of love.