Tag: Laura Frantz

  • REVIEW of The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz (BLOG TOUR)

    REVIEW of The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz (BLOG TOUR)

    When Blythe Hedley returns home from the French court, she discovers that her father, the Earl of Northumberland, is far more enmeshed in the Jacobite cause than suspected. With the new Hanoverian king installed in London, the Jacobites are agitating to bring back the Stuart king from over the water. Blythe’s father sends her for…

  • REVIEW of An Uncommon Woman by Laura Frantz

    REVIEW of An Uncommon Woman by Laura Frantz

    Raised in the wilds of the Virginia frontier, Tessa Swan yearns for flounced petticoats, imported spices, and all the trappings of civilization in far-off Philadelphia. Cooking and cleaning for five brothers seems to be her lot in life, however, and ever since the Indian raid that killed her father, the Swan siblings have kept one…

  • REVIEW of A Bound Heart by Laura Frantz

    REVIEW of A Bound Heart by Laura Frantz

    As the beekeeper and apothecary on the Scottish Isle of Kerrera, Lark MacDougall is responsible for giving the laird’s wife comfort after her many miscarriages and finding some herbs that will help her keep a baby to term. But when the querulous invalid dies, Lark is blamed for it and sent to prison. Indentured servitude…

  • REVIEW of The Lacemaker, by Laura Frantz

    REVIEW of The Lacemaker, by Laura Frantz

    When Elizabeth Lawson’s father, Lord Stirling, flees his position in Williamsburg, she is left behind with a ransacked home, no friends, and a faithless fiance who wants nothing more than to distance himself from the unpopular Tories. Her fiance’s cousin, Noble Rynallt, is made of truer stuff, however, and he gives Elizabeth shelter until she…

  • REVIEW of A Moonbow Night, by Laura Frantz

    REVIEW of A Moonbow Night, by Laura Frantz

    This book tells a little-seen side of the Revolutionary War, the fate of the frontier families in the wilds of Kentucke surrounded by hostile Indians goaded onto the warpath by King George. At the remote Moonbow Inn, Temperance Tucker and her family work to feed travelers and stay clear of trouble. They have had enough…

  • REVIEW of The Mistress of Tall Acre, by Laura Frantz

    REVIEW of The Mistress of Tall Acre, by Laura Frantz

    In The Mistress of Tall Acre, Laura Frantz explores the time period directly following the American Revolution. What is life like for a young woman whose family was on “the wrong side”of the war, a heroine left friendless in the new United States with her home under threat of confiscation? Sophie Menzies is an endearing…