Harrison, Robert (University of Sunderland UK)

Gone West Part Two - Texas Harrison, Robert (University of Sunderland UK)

Exciting Historical Fiction with a Christian Theme in the highly anticipated second installment of Gone West, 16-year-old Wyatt Harrison has left his northern Alabama home to escape an oppressive father and an unwanted future in farming. But after a fatal fight with his employer's half-brother, Wyatt finds himself running for his life. He is given hurried guidance from his friend Pablo Flores and his grandfather to flee, so Wyatt decides to head west. Along the way, he teams up with Mabel, a young woman who is also running from the law and has implicated him in her deeds as well. Their alliance proves to be an asset as well as a liability, and together they travel the Natchez Trail from Tennessee to Mississippi, until Wyatt decides to set out on his own. He turns to God for forgiveness and guidance and is driven to make his own way in life under His direction. Drawing strength through nature and the scriptures in an old battered bible, he crosses the Sabine River-where he discovers that his trials are not over.