Many Sparrows by Lori Benton

From the publisher:

In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail.
When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son...especially when her second child is moments away from being born.

Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians now holding him captive. But with the battle lines sharply drawn, Jacob’s life might not be the only one at stake. When frontiersman Jeremiah Ring comes to her aid, can the stranger convince Clare that recovering her son will require the very thing her anguished heart is unwilling to do—be still, wait and let God fight this battle for them?

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Many Sparrows is an intense trip into the western frontier with imperfect characters wrapped in God's grace.  Clare is waiting for her husband to return to their damaged wagon when her premature labor begins distracting her from watching her four year old son.  His disappearance begins a long journey of physically searching for her son Jacob as well as a spiritual search for a God that can make good out of any situation.  As Clare learns to truly wait on the Lord her heart is challenged in ways that sometimes feels unbearable.  She will look her child's kidnapper in the eyes and see evil there.  She will watch as another gains her child's trust and love.  She will learn not just tolerance of another people's ways but admiration.  This tale weaves back and forth between the settler's world and the Native American's way of life.  Told in stark, unfiltered descriptions the author shows "both sides of the story" as the saying goes.  She gives fair say to each and helps the reader see more clearly how the lines of absolute rightness are not often as they appear.  While trusting God to do the impossible Clare also learns to accept the impossible.  Through this transformation in her soul she finds a God bigger than any of her fears or even her dreams.