Bernadine Mabe

Davy Bernadine Mabe

Family survival was anall-consuming passion for Dan Shepherd.¿To avoid the impending Indian hostilities that would soon be unleashedagainst the isolated town of Hidden Valley,he moved his five younger brothers and sister back to their Bostonroots. For twelve years, Dan endured theEast until the onset of civil war gave him excuse to return his siblings totheir western wilderness home. Moving three thousand milesacross the continent distanced the family only from the civil warbattlefields.¿ The Shepherds soon foundthemselves embroiled in their own internal conflict where the battle lines weredrawn around one solitary youth. Brother rebukes brother:¿ "That kid is a curse on anyone who hasanything to do with him and you are bringing him into our home!"Family strife was not the onlybattlefront the Shepherds would face.¿ Aband of renegade deserters laid claim to Hidden Valley and held it in siege. Will the Shepherds, of strongfaith and integrity, fall prey to superstition and iniquity? Can a familydivided against itself long endure?¿ Will Davy be their undoing?¿