title: Mohawk Woman
author: Riefe, Barbara
description: The third novel in the author's Iroquois series, set in the early eighteenth century, follows the struggle of Singing Brook to save her husband, a Native American prisoner of war named Sky Toucher, from execution for treason.
  
  When Singing Brook marries her lover, Sky Toucher, she sees all her dreams of happiness fulfilled. But her joy ends abruptly when Sky Toucher leaves her to enlist in the fight of the English against the French for control of the North American colonies in 1710.  --  Seduced by false promises, Sky Toucher is soon abandoned by those he trusts. Captured and tortured as a prisoner of war, he is forced on a grueling trek to Canada, where he faces execution for treason.
  
  But he has two resources: the wife he left behind and his cousin Two Eagles. Alone, in a brutal wilderness filled with hostile enemy tribes, they launch a daring rescue mission. To save her husband, Singing Brook must become a warrior in both heart and soul.