Though Elizabeth has no intention to marry, she is immediately drawn, not to Richard, but to backwoodsman Nathaniel Bonner, son of Dan'l "Hawkeye" Bonner, hero of the James Fenimore Cooper classic. It is his intention to find her a husband, preferably the well-respected physician, Richard Todd. Her widowed father has promised Elizabeth that she can become the schoolteacher for the local children, but on her arrival at Paradise, her father's property, she learns that he has brought her to America under false pretenses. Elizabeth takes matters into her own hands, and secretly elopes with Nathaniel, which causes much disapproval and shock amongst the townspeople, including the parents of her pupils, and her own family.In this ambitious and vibrant sequel to The Last of the Mohicans, Elizabeth Middleton, a well-educated spinster of 29, journeys from her home in England to her father's lands in upstate New York in 1792. Marrying Todd would hand Hidden Wolf over to him instead. Marrying Nathaniel would grant him the land that he has been seeking to own for so long, Hidden Wolf, the land that he lives on with his family.
Elizabeth, however, finds that she has fallen in love with Nathaniel Bonner, a white man who lives as a Mohican, also a widower. Problems arise when Elizabeth's father, cash broke, sets out to arrange a marriage between his daughter and the wealthy local doctor, Richard Todd. Settling down to a new life in the freedom of this new land, Elizabeth sets out to provide an education for all the town children, white, black, and Indian. Spinster Elizabeth Middleton, 29 years old, arrives in a small colonial town in the United States called Paradise, with her father, Judge Middleton, and her brother, Julian.
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