No Eye Can See

by Jane Kirkpatrick Book 2 in the Kinship and Courage series.

First published 2001

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Blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches Shasta City with women who survived the Oregon Trail, but her determination to manage without assistance begins to endanger both herself and her children. Ruth, Mazy and Tipton are equally constrained by old betrayals and by the fear that dependence will make them vulnerable again.

A stage driver’s defence of a Wintu man draws the group into the conflicts of a frontier community. The novel’s Christian hope lies in altered perception: accepting help, recognising prejudice and trusting that a future may contain good that no individual can yet see.