This extraordinary book written by Charlotte Martin - a fifth generation Floridian, is a riveting story based on actual family history. Readers are in for a roller coaster ride of emotions. You will be, while reading, as if you were there in 1826 Florida- seeing, hearing, and feeling each step of the journey. You can not stop - once reading has started. In the year of 1826 Florida Territory was opened for settlement. It seemed like the land of opportunity with its lush vegetation, rich soil, beautiful beaches, rivers, and deep blue springs. Young, old, married and single alike, all came by wagon, horseback, mule teams, and even walking, to claim a piece of "heaven on earth". Read of a time in history when life was less complicated and simple pleasures brought much happiness, but also was dangerous, cruel and extremely hard. Customs, traditions, and ceremonies of Indian, settler, and slave are a mixture of fact, fiction and imagination.