A Long Time in the Wilderness

Despite warnings from her family and her own common sense, in the year 1905, Neva Walters, a pretty southern farm girl and traveling organ teacher, hastily married Neal Larkin, a mysterious stranger who crashed her party.Savagely beaten on her wedding night, Neva soon learned she was a captive in the male dominated Larkin family where unusual circumstances ruled escape not an option.Effie, Neal's mother, nursed Neva back to health and became her mentor through her journey as a Larkin Woman.Neva, despite a future of pain, depravation and near helplessness strived to liberate the women and children from the grip of the Larkin men.Neva was truly a long time in the wilderness and her struggle leads the reader on many unexpected twists and turns to a surprising end.