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Across the Wilderness (The Wilderness Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Pamela Ackerson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Stories that stir within us the unquenchable hope for a better tomorrow.

Pamela Ackerson delivers all the passion that fans of this Native American, historical, time travel series have come to love. With unforgettable characters, she has enchanted readers with adventure and love that has spanned across the essence of time. This is the story that started it all, introducing the Wilderness time travel series, a timeless, spellbinding novel of passion and richly detailed history that delightfully comes alive in an exhilarating adventure with a love story that spans across the ages. The mysterious dreams had become a reality.

Traveling through time, Dr. Karen Anderson found herself in the land of the Lakota, in the midst of the Indian wars, and the movement west. Swept into the arms of the dark-haired warrior, Standing Deer, from her modern-day hustle and bustle to the temporary serenity of life on the Plains...over the span of time, they fight for yesterday and together find the promise of tomorrow.

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Pamela Ackerson, Time Travel, Sweet Romance, Science Fiction, Contemporary, WW2

Native American, Time Travel, Adventure, Western
The Wilderness Series

Discover how exciting it is to travel back in time. The Wilderness Series has it all. Romance, war, intrigue, betrayal, and the unquenchable hope for a better tomorrow. From book one, where Dr. Karen Anderson discovers the magical bed that transports her family to the past, to the Lakota Indians, to her son Matthew's search for his fate, and book five with Karen's youngest daughter Jennifer, who doesn't know what she wants, but still manages to find her happily-ever-after.

Pamela Ackerson

International, Barnes & Noble, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author

Pamela Ackerson is a time traveling adventurer. She lives on the Space Coast of Florida where everyone is encouraged to reach for the stars! With over 70 published books, she's a multi-genre author who writes time travel, westerns, Native American, historical fiction, nonfiction, WW2, inspirational, self-help marketing and advertising, personal and travel journals, and children's preschool/first reader books.

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Stories that stir within us the unquenchable hope for a better tomorrow.

Pamela Ackerson delivers all the passion that fans of this Native American, historical, time travel series have come to love. With unforgettable characters, she has enchanted readers with adventure and love that has spanned across the essence of time.

This is the story that started it all, introducing the Wilderness time travel series, a timeless, spellbinding novel of passion and richly detailed history that delightfully comes alive in an exhilarating adventure with a love story that spans across the ages.

The mysterious dreams had become a reality. Traveling through time, Dr. Karen Anderson found herself in the land of the Lakota, in the midst of the Indian wars, and the movement west. Swept into the arms of the dark-haired warrior, Standing Deer, from her modern-day hustle and bustle to the temporary serenity of life on the Plains...over the span of time, they fight for yesterday and together find the promise of tomorrow.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00QKVWTDO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (December 3, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 3, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4940 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 191 pages
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Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Wall Street Journal bestselling, award-winning author, Pamela Ackerson is a time traveling adventurer. She was born and raised in Newport, RI where history is a way of life. She lives on the Space Coast of Florida where everyone is encouraged to reach for the stars! When it's time to runaway, she's a hop, skip, and jump from Disney World and fun-filled imagination and fantasy. With over 70 published books, she's a multi-genre author writes time travel, westerns, Native American, historical fiction, nonfiction, WW2, inspirational, self-help marketing and advertising, personal and travel journals, and children's preschool/first reader books.

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Reader Lady
5.0 out of 5 stars My Musings
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2023
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Wow, just wow! What an amazing story with incredible characters and an emotional plot. I found this one in my TBR list. Glad I finally saw it and look forward to reading the next one in this series. Happy reading!
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H D
4.0 out of 5 stars Very entertaining.
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020
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The story quickly pulled me in and kept my interest throughout. I'm already looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This was a fun read. I read it on a trip to ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015
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This was a fun read. I read it on a trip to Florida after stocking my Kindle with romances to read while on the beach. I enjoyed the magical elements of Across the Wilderness such as, the antique bed which allows the heroine to time travel when she sleeps. It reminded me of the bed in the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks movie except this one is set in a romance novel and takes the heroine to the western United States smack dab into Indian country. If you went to sleep in a magical bed which could take you back in time where would you hope it would take you? This was just one of the questions which entered my mind in between reading the story.
I like stories which engage my imagination in this way and this one kept me wondering. I kept wondering when and were she would wake up and what adventures and challenges she would face next. And that for me, was fun.
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Tulip
3.0 out of 5 stars Timetravel romance to the Indians of the 1800dreds - interesting concept but with flaws
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018
Sometimes you prefer some not too complicated reading material so that is why I picked this novel from my NetGalley-review pile. The concept is interesting: the moment a woman falls asleep in her newly bought vintage bed she is transported through time and distance to the mid-1800dreds and the Lakota territories. The moment she falls asleep there she will be home again in modern times.

What to do if you know the men and women around you will suffer greatly in a few years time because you know what happened in history? Would you be completely focussed on the possibility to save them but maybe alter your own time? What happens in Outlander for instance.

It might be a bit much to overanalyse a book that is meant for light reading. But there are some things I would like to discuss with you:

1) When you write a book situated in American history you might reflect for a moment your global readers from say Japan, Germany or Chile will not immediately have a moment of recognition when you mention Red Cloud, Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse. They might have heard a name but not know in detail. A bit more explanation would help. Also why the Pawnee where so hated.

2) Some things that happen sound off. You will know if someone penetrates you even when you are drunk When the Indian brave is taught a condom is like a shield between an man and a woman preventing babies he is not that backwards he would not notice when that shield is ripped. The presence of the white man is never explained. Why leave when it is not necessary yet even in her reasoning? What I mean is there are some moments that has me frowning.

3) I really do not like it when a writer splits a book in two volumes. An open ending can be on purpose to the reader will have to fill things in herself or himself but this is just a cut in the story that will continue in another book. Bad marketing trick. There is a hint the heroine does things to try to save her friends but the story suddenly ends.

4) The Indians are really depicted as the noble savages and I wondered if that was a correct interpretation of history. I imagine when I would be transported to the 19th century I would find some habits nasty. I scrolled through the reviews on Amazon and their one reviewer complained about the Christian sauce that was in the story. That they real Lakota were quite different and no saints believing in one God.

Although the book is a romance book and they do sleep together it is a book very suitable for people under 18 as never is it that explicit mentioned in detail. The type of story itself is never becoming very complicated so it might attract more the young adult readers then the people who like a more complicated story.
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M. E. A.
5.0 out of 5 stars A time travel romance with something for everyone!
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2020
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Across the Wilderness is a time travel romance with something for everyone!

Featuring Karen, a single doctor who finds herself transported back in time to the period of the civil war where Native Americans still roamed free, this story is the historical romance I’ve been waiting for.

The author did an amazing job crafting two worlds in one book, making both Karen’s life and the past to which she travels equally real.

Fraught with tension, intrigue, and romance, I couldn’t put this book down, and I am eager to read the next installment in this series.
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Cathy
1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2022
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This was just a terrible book, I have to send it back to Amazon before even finishing a whole chapter because the writing was on first look, cringeworthy.

There was no set up to the romance, to the time travel, to even the characters. The author spent the first few introduction pages switching povs back and forth between the heroine and her love interest just to reflect on how eye rollingly attractive the other is and how ready they are to sleep with each other. They didn’t even say a word to each other and there were already whole paragraphs about how the man finds this white woman sexy and how the white woman felt a stirring of instant attraction for this stranger. She couldn’t care less about her sudden temporal situation, her brain was already on jumping this stranger.

Judging by the other reviews, there was no sensitivity read through at all and the portrayal of the native American love interest and his culture sounds offensively shallow and inappropriate.
Will not recommend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars History Alive!
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2021
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Take a walk back in time and see through the eyes of those who lived then. Ponder the various points of view that are to be considered; what should be done to create a better world for all who follow us?
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Johnaboutime
4.0 out of 5 stars Red Indian love story across time.
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
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Good YA read with lessons to learn. Characters are strong and crafted out of history. This was a fun read with a strong moralistic message which include a splash of adult content.
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sharonbails
2.0 out of 5 stars The writing is pretty basic. It also starts to get very tedious ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2015
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The writing is pretty basic. It also starts to get very tedious with all the long Indian names. The heroine is supposed to be a Medical Practioner, but she does very stupid things for someone who is supposed to be intelligent. This series was recommended as I loved Diana Gabaldons Outlander series, this is a huge disappointment and aside from the time travel is a million miles away from Outlander in both class and penmanship.
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Charm
5.0 out of 5 stars I love historical romance way better than I like modern romance
Reviewed in Australia on July 7, 2015
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Lovely story , I love historical romance way better than I like modern romance, looking forward to reading the next one.
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