She writes from experience

Imagine a post-war world, where families have to hide from enemies seeking to capture and imprison them, learn to live on the land, without electricity, without cars or tractors, without modern conveniences.

Imagine a family trying to do that in the Bear Paw Mountains south of Chinook.

That is the story told in the first work of fiction by a Hi-Line native whose love of children and the outdoors, combined with a disabling illness, led her to a new career as an author.

BilliJo Doll's first novel, "The Seekers," hit the bookstores last month. While the names of towns and locations in north-centr...