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The story of Ian Cameron and Seona, a former slave, continues. Seona and their son Gabriel are now living in Boston. Ian has stayed at Mountain Laurel, trying to make a life there with his wife Judith. But when tragedy strikes, Ian decides to return north with his young daughter. When Ian has the opportunity to obtain land near the frontier settlement of Shiloh, New York, he seizes the chance to make a new life with those he loves.

Can a man accept mercy when it feels more like a curse than a blessing?When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy-- transport across the Atlantic Ocean and exile to the colony of North Carolina--he's indentured as a blacksmith to Edmund Carey, prosperous owner of Severn Plantation. The arrangement devastates the Scot, who mourns the life he lost and finds life on a slave plantation intolerable. Unwittingly, Alex is...

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For readers of Sara Donati and Diana Gabaldon, this epic historical romance tells of fateful love between an indentured Scotsman and a daughter of the 18th century colonial south.When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy--exile to the Colony of North Carolina--he's indentured to Englishman Edmund Carey as a blacksmith. Against his will Alex is drawn into the struggles of Carey's slaves--and those of his stepdaught...

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Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would…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 so...

A Christy award-winning novel about a woman caught between two worlds, and the lengths she goes to find where she belongs Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family's New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. At the boundary of her father's property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path. Feeling obliged to nurse his injuri...

In 'Aan het einde van de vallei' van Lori Benton komt een zoon erachter dat de man die hem heeft opgevoed niet zijn echte vader is. Twintig jaar geleden, in 1757, stal majoor Reginald Aubrey een pasgeboren jongetje, noemde hem William en voedde hem op als zijn eigen kind. Nooit is iemand erachter gekomen. Zijn geadopteerde dochter Anna weet nergens van. Stone Thrower, de echte vader van William, heeft nooit de schuldige gevonden. En ook Two ...

In de roman 'Samen over de blauwe bergen' beschrijft Lori Benton het harde pioniersleven in West North Carolina in het jaar 1787. Als een daad van dapper verzet zegt Tamsen Littlejohn op een dag vaarwel tegen haar leven met haar strenge stiefvader en het huwelijk dat hij voor haar gearrangeerd heeft. Omdat het onverantwoord is om alleen te reizen, vraagt ze de mysterieuze pionier Jesse Bird haar te begeleiden over de Blue Ridge Mountains. Haa...