Lead Me Home (novel)

LMH front cover finalRickover Publishing is proud to offer the debut historical novel from Theresa Hupp, Lead Me Home: Hardship and hope on the Oregon Trail, now available in paperback and ebook formats from Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes & Noble (Nook).

Lead Me Home  is a compelling saga about the Oregon Trail, which fans of Lonesome Dove and True Grit will appreciate. Readers of Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey will also enjoy this fictional account of the lives of western emigrants.

Lead Me Home  tells the story of Caleb “Mac” McDougall, a young Bostonian, who in 1847 seeks adventure on the Oregon Trail. As he passes through Missouri, he rescues Jenny Calhoun, a lonely girl in trouble. To join a wagon train bound for Oregon, Mac and Jenny pose as a married couple. On the arduous six-month trek, they confront raging rivers, rugged mountains, and untrustworthy companions. Together, Mac and Jenny face the best and worst in themselves and in each other, while discovering the beauty and danger of the western frontier.

According to Pamela Boles Eglinski, author of Return of the French Blue and She Rides With Genghis Khan,

Lead Me Home is a riveting story of the westward movement. . . . A not to be missed novel about the strength of character and infinite bravery and determination of our ancestors.”

Author Theresa Hupp says

“I grew up in Eastern Washington State. Narcissa Whitman, the first white woman to settle in the Oregon Territory, was my heroine. One branch of my family emigrated to Oregon in the 1840s. In Lead Me Home, I imagine the lives of these intrepid pioneers along the Oregon Trail.”

Theresa Hupp has published award-winning essays, short stories, and poetry, as well as a bestselling financial thriller under a pseudonym. She has worked as an attorney, mediator, and human resources consultant. She was a 2010 Midwest Voices columnist for The Kansas City Star and has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul and Kansas City Voices. She has served on the boards of Whispering Prairie Press and The Writers Place in Kansas City, and is a member of the Kansas City Writers Group, Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., and Write Brain Trust. Theresa has a B.A. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Lead Me Home  is her first historical novel.

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Please contact Theresa Hupp for additional information at MTHupp@gmail.com.