Captivated Cutter's Creek, Book 18 By: Vivi Holt Narrated by: Paul Curtis

I loved this story of Maria as she adapted to the Lakota lifestyle after her husband was killed and she was kidnapped. Her husband Botta came to love her and protected her no matter what happened, even when she was the foolish one. His love was so great that he tracked her down after the sheriff took her back to civilization to ask her to come back to him and his children. The author also made it plain that the settlers did not know what to make of Maria, so they called her "That Mrs. Holloway". So many times, authors try to just integrate the person back into society like nothing had happened. The truth is in that day and age, if a woman was captured by an Indian and was taken as a wife. It was better for her to stay with her Indian husband than return to civilization. White men and women were very bigoted at the time, and Christian women were not so Christian when confronted with the truth of living with the Indians.