Stonehaven
April 5th, 2008 . by LisaStonehaven by Amanda LacLean is the sequel to Westward. This is the story of Callie, who has traveled to Ohio to attend college, and is now 22. While attending Oberlin College, Callie becomes involved in the Underground Railroad after witnessing the murder of a child and assault of a runaway slave. Her position as leader of the Railroad is compromised and she is forced to leave in the middle of the night with one of her friends.
They decide to travel to Mississippi, to her friend Sheridan’s cousin Liam and the beloved plantation she had to leave behind when she was 16. Callie has vowed to once again have Stonehaven in her family and is suspicious of her Uncle Caleb’s business dealings. Once in Natchez, they enlist the help of Liam, who has also had dealings with her uncle and is in danger of losing everything to him.
Callie’s real plan however, is to return to Stonehaven and turn it into a major hub for the Underground Railroad. She is invited back by her uncle once he knows she is in town and soon she is overseeing the duties of the house. She also becomes involved with the Railroad, and then the man whom she has loved for several years, the son of friends from New Mexico, shows up in Natchez. She can’t tell him her secret, but with her Uncle Caleb searching out her secrets and determining the best way to get her out of his way, time is getting short. Hawk (her love) has been called to minister as a doctor to the people of his mother, the Mandan Indians, while she has no such calling and is determined to stay at Stonehaven.
