Love’s Fortune
September 22nd, 2014. Filed under: Monday's Musings.Love’s Fortune
By Laura Frantz
With two very different horizons stretched out before her, one young woman stands on the cusp of an unknown future.
Sheltered since birth at her Kentucky home, Rowena “Wren” Ballantyne has heard only whispered rumors of her grandfather Silas’s vast fortune and grand manor in Pennsylvania. When her father receives a rare letter summoning him to New Hope, Wren makes the journey with him and quickly finds herself in a whole new world–family members she’s never met, dances she’s never learned, and a new side to the father she thought she knew.
As she struggles to fit in during their extended stay, she finds a friend in James Sackett, the most valued steamship pilot of the Ballantynes’ shipping line. Even with his help, Wren feels she may never be comfortable in high society. Will she go her own way . . . to her peril?
With her signature attention to historical detail and emotional depth, Laura Frantz brings 1850s Pennsylvania alive with a tender story of loss, love, and loyalty.
ISLAND BREEZES
Wren loves her music and her home in Kentucky, but is about to set out on a river tip to visit relatives she’s never seen in Pennsylvania.
But how do you go from barefoot to high society? Wren really does try to fit in. She’s found a man she thinks is quite special, but he belongs to her cousin. Instead of trying for James Sackett’s attention she finds solace in her violin.
Too bad that violin ends up bringing her so much grief. Wren just wants to escape back home to Kentucky where she can have the music and beauty of her home instead of the anxiety and misery of unrequited love.
Laura Frantz always holds my attention throughout her books. I love the historical details. I enjoy learning and I always learn something new in each of her books. Thank you, Ms Frantz.
***A special thank you to Lanette Haskins for providing a review copy.***
Laura Frantz is a Christy Award finalist and the author of several books, including The Frontiersman’s Daughter, Love’s Reckoning, and Love’s Awakening. She currently lives in the misty woods of Washington with her husband and two sons. Learn more at www.laurafrantz.net.