Montana On My Mind

Ida in the WildernessIda is content living in the far north reaches of Montana with husband, Sid, and new baby, Sam. Still, she's lonely. Reaching out to a young neighbor, Cissie, for company, Ida learns the girl lives with a monstrous problem and no clear solution. But when Sid is attacked and near death, and Ida fears for both him and Sam, she must turn to Cissie for survival.UpriverBorn in Tennessee in the early 1800s to an enslaved mother, Hannah's mixed blood offers no protection from the same abuse her mother suffered. Her siblings then her child ripped away and sold downriver, Hannah dreams of a life only she owns, of finding her son, and bringing him to a new place-upriver.For the ChildrenSchoolteacher Molly longs for a child of her own and in the meantime offers concern and love to her 6th grade students. When young Nicole says she wants to die and confesses a pregnancy from rape but fears to name an attacker, Molly sets out to discover the truth. Could the perpetrator be someone from the school? Summer MoonLiving in a VW bus on a Montana river, young Summer Moon is pregnant and deathly afraid the county welfare will take her baby if they find out. She seeks advice from her dead mother, along with wild animals along the river. No help there, but the summer people Summer works for could speak up for her. Well . . . maybe, if they knew