Crossing Sand Creek

Daniel Frey is forced by circumstance to abandon a life of security and plenty in South Russia and emigrate to America in the 1870s. Eighteen-year-old Hilda and her older brother, Gus, struggle with their loyalty to family and faith as a strange new world opens up to them. A chance encounter on their arrival at Newton, Kansas, changes Hilda’s life forever. Tag is an outsider who has amnesia, carries a gun, owns a saloon, and has nightmares that fill him with terror—and who wins her heart. Gus yearns to experience places beyond the boundaries of the Mennonite community north of Sand Creek. Daniel is a devout and desperate father who strives to keep his children within the discipline of the faith; however, Hilda, drawn by the love of an outsider, and Gus, drawn by adventure, face danger, estrangement, fear, and murder on the Kansas prairie.