The Twelve Tribes

Every runaway wants a home. Esther has twelve chances to find one. In the year 1806, a young woman, kidnapped from her parents at age five, escapes from slavery in a Spanish mission and makes a desperate flight into the vast wilderness of Northern California. She seeks a new life among twelve mysterious tribes who base their lives upon astrology. She sifts through the ruins of broken dreams for clues to her missing past. Original.