Into the Wilderness: The Long Hunters — Rosanne Bittner

Set in I 750s Pennsylvania. Into the Wilderness depicts life in the Allegheny Mountains and the Northeast at the beginning of the French and Indian War. When sixteen-year-old Jessica Matthews is attacked by Ottawa Indians, she is saved by the darkle attractive long hunter Noah Wilde. As Noah recovers froth his wounds at Jessica's mountain cabin, he and Jessica fall in love; but Noah, who is secretly spying for the English government, has a mission to fulfill and is forced to leave once he recovers.

When Noah is unexpectedly detained in Virginia, a tragedy changes Jessica's life forever. He must use all of his investigative skills to find the woman he loves. But whether she will take him back--and whether her new family will allow her to be taken--remains to be seen...