Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Loners & Outcasts

Deluxe collection of the award-winning Natural Forces Trilogy. Epic eco-fantasy. Bee-shifter, bear-shifter, Forest spy and woman-lover; Four unlikely friends face death in the Citadel for being who they are.

In "The Secret Path of Destiny," a young, disabled, German-American girl, named Isolde, and her destitute mother reach out for a lifeline being offered by a widower in the German town of Fredericksburg, Texas. The year is 1865, and the two travel from New York City through the aftermath of the Civil War. But another war is brewing, this time with Native Americans. And Isolde and her mother are heading right into the heart of Comancheria, the homeland of the Comanche.

It is not the Comanche Isolde fears, but her mother's new employer, who becomes her stepfather. Isolde realizes he is a...

In The Thundering Path of Spirit, young teenage Amanda Blair is the sole survivor of an attack by a small band of Crow Indians while traveling west by wagon train with her parents. Adopted by the Crow, Amanda becomes Spotted Deer and grows to young womanhood with her Crow family in the Montana Territory. Mysterious circumstances after a vision quest lead her to run away to the town of Helena, where her troubled memories of the brutal attack are finally healed.

Content to live with her own people again, she hears rumors of war breaking out near the Little Bighorn River. With the...