Riding the Trail of Tears by Blake M. Hausman

The story takes readers to north Georgia in the near future at a theme park.  The tourists can ride the Trail of Tear that revisits the Cherokee Removal.  A Cherokee woman named Tallulah Wilson is the tour guide for this ride.  This is Tallulah’s last ride of the day before her vacation begins. The tourists gather on the ride and it starts out normally taking them back in time.  When moving through the scenes of the Cherokee life, one of the tourists disappears and others lose consciousness inside the ride.  Tallulah and other employees at the compound come to believe that a terrorist attack is imminent.  Tallulah doesn’t realize that Cherokee Little People have taken up residence in the virtual world and intend to change the ride’s programming to suit their own point of view.  The people on the ride are about to become participants in the Cherokee Removal and not simply 1 witnesses.

This is not something I would normally read but I was attracted by the historical event. It is a pleasant read but scary at times.