The Colonel’s Lady
August 20th, 2011. Filed under: This & That.
To the trail-weary and frightened women, Fort Endeavor seemed unwelcoming at first, but Roxanna Rowan knew they needed to get to safety as quickly as possible in The Colonel’s Lady (ISBN: 978-0-8007-3341-4, $14.99, 416 pages, August 2011) by bestselling author Laura Frantz. Deep within the Kentucky Territory, Fort Endeavor could provide a new life for genteel spinster Roxanna as long as she was with her father. She had to find him in the mass of all these soldiers. But where was he?
Shortly after arriving at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, the Colonel tells Roxanna that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna accepts the Scrivener position once held by her father. Before long, Roxanna discovers secrets that her father uncovered shortly before his death. Who could she trust with this discovery that she found in her father’s Scrivener desk? Could she trust the Colonel? Was his attraction to her real or was he hiding his own secrets including her father’s death? Roxanna needed answers that only the Colonel could provide.
Set in 1779 The Colonel’s Lady is a powerful and emotion-packed story full of love, suspense, intrigue, faith, and forgiveness from reader favorite Laura Frantz. Her solid research and skillful writing immerse readers in the world of the early frontier while her realistic characters become intimate friends.
ISLAND BREEZES
She was definitely a lady – even while she was scrubbing dirty clothes and cooking for a fort full of men.
When the colonel returned from his campaign with bad news for her, it was really bad news/good news.
Bad news – her father was killed. Good news – you can quit cooking and have your father’s job.
Life at a frontier fort proved to be messy. For Roxanna, other women & children who lived there, captured Indians and the soldiers.
Throw a spy into the mix and it stirs up a whole lot more confusion and trouble. I was back and forth between a couple men the entire book, but never once figured out the identity of the spy.
And, of course, the love developing between the lady and her colonel was never smooth sailing. There were all kinds of obstacles.
You just might need some of those tissues before you finish this book.
***A special thank you to Donna Hausler who provided a review copy***
Laura Frantz credits her grandmother as being the catalyst for her fascination with Kentucky history. Frantz’s family followed Daniel Boone into Kentucky in the late eighteenth century and settled in Madison County, where her family still resides. Frantz is the author of The Frontiersman’s Daughter and Courting Morrow Little and currently lives in the misty woods of Washington with her husband and two sons. More information about Laura at: www.laurafrantz.net
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Available August 2011 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
August 21st, 2011 at 17:07
Thank you for your kind words. I’m looking forward to more of your books.