MY REVIEW:

The Colonel’s Lady is the kind of novel that keeps me loving historical fiction. Not only do I get the opportunity to learn something about our nation’s history but I can see it through the eyes of characters similar to those who really lived it. With strong historical facts and characters so real they could almost walk off the page, Laura Frantz has once again penned a story that will take its place on my keeper shelf.

After a long and arduous journey filled with danger, Roxanna was overjoyed to finally reach Kentucke Fort Endeavor where she could join her father. All too soon her world crashed when she learned of his death and that she would have to remain at the fort because of increasing danger from the British and Indians in the area. Colonel Cass McLinn’s promise to the dying man and his own sense of guilt over the death prompt him to offer Roxanna a job at the fort. He soon finds that she has stolen his heart.

Not only is the fort threatened by the British forces who are closing in but their couriers have never arrived and their supplies have been intercepted and made unusable. Evidence soon points to a spy in their midst but his identity is unknown. Drama builds as circumstances grow increasingly worse and survival seems hopeless.

This story is filled with action, mystery, suspense, and romance. Emotional responses seem appropriate to the situations. The plot contains numerous twists and surprises with secrets revealed at just the right moment. A strong message of faith is interwoven in a manner that enhances the story.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Colonel’s Lady and would recommend it as well as Laura Frantz’s other novels.

This book was provided for review by
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Imminent Danger Surrounds Fort Endeavor; Spy Leaks Secrets To Enemy

Bestselling Author Laura Frantz Delivers Emotion-Packed Historical Romance

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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