Author: loribenton
“A fascinating story, rich in emotion.” –Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander seriesNorth Carolina, 1793Ian Cameron, a Boston cabinetmaker turned frontier trapper, has come to Mountain Laurel hoping to remake himself yet again–into his planter uncle’s heir. No matter how uneasily the role of slave owner rests upon his shoulders. Then he meets Seona–beautiful, … Seona–beautiful, artistic, and enslaved to his kin.Seona has a secret: she’s been drawing for years, ever since that day she picked up a broken slate to sketch a portrait. When Ian catches her at it, he offers her opportunity to let…
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 … into the struggles of Carey’s slaves–and those of his stepdaughter, Joanna Carey. A mistress with a servant’s heart, Joanna is expected to wed her father’s overseer, Phineas Reeves, but finds herself drawn instead to the new blacksmith. As…
Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would… forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail.When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son…especially when her second child is moments away from being born.Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians…
From a Christy Award–winning author: As the American Revolutionary War ignites, Reginald and his son William must face the truth of William’s heritage — and the divisions in their family that can only be healed by faith and love.
After his newborn’s death, Major Reginald Aubrey makes a haunting choice: He takes another family’s child as a replacement. Years later, the truth is revealed — but will God’s plan be made clear? “A novel that will linger in my heart for a long time to come” (Robin Lee Hatcher).
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 … wounded Scotsman lying in her path. Feeling obliged to nurse his injuries, the two quickly find much has changed during her twelve-year absence: her childhood home is in disrepair, her missing parents are rumored…
From a three-time Christy Award winner! Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Tamsen flees to North Carolina. On the way, she finds danger — and love — in this gripping frontier saga with nearly 450 five-star ratings on Goodreads.