USA Today Bestseller One of Refinery29s Best Reads of September In this novel authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty hardship and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction a captivating story that illuminates one courageous resilient and loving pioneer woman as never beforeCaroline Ingalls Ma in Laura Ingalls Wilders beloved Little House books. In the frigid days of February 1870 Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon Caroline her husband Charles and their little girls Mary and Laura head west to settle in a beautiful unpredictable land full of promise and peril.