Anna North

"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...

"In the not too distant future, eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on an island in the Pacific Ocean, one of the last places on earth that is still habitable after North America has succumbed to a second ice age. To Darcy, America Pacifica is simply home: the only one she's ever known, its discomforts and mysteries made bearable by her loving though enigmatic mother. Then one night her mother receives a strange visitor--and the next day, she's gone."