Years later, now a grown woman, she returns to her childhood home in the wilderness afer her father's death and her mother has remarried and moved elsewhere.
As the Shawnee warrior's visits become more frequent, her Pa first moves her to an elderly aunt's cabin, who teaches her about herbal medicine, and then far away to a finishing school. However, her heart belongs to her childhood friend Simon, who intends to marry her. It seems he is trying to court her, as he begins leaving gifts for her (such as glass Indian beads and a striped blanket). Occasionally, a tall and handsome Shawnee warrior rides near the cabin, and calls her to come onto the front porch and let down her long blonde hair. The Click cabin in the deep woods of the Kentucke settlement is full of secrets and silence, and Lael longs to know the truth. The Frontiersman's Daughter begins when Lael Click is a 13-year-old girl with a father who lived with the Shawnee for a few years and adopted some of their strange ways, and a mother who is hiding secrets of her own. (The first was Courting Morrow Little.) Both have been interesting and heart-warming with lovely characters.
This was the second novel I've read from Laura Frantz.
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