Two hundred years ago, the Battle of New Orleans pitted US General Andrew Jackson against the British Army in the last conflict of the War of 1812. Journey back to that time in Susanna Fraser's FREEDOM TO LOVE:
Louisiana 1815
Thérèse Bondurant trusted her parents to provide for her and her young half-sister, though they never wed due to laws against mixed-race marriage. But when both die of a fever, Thérèse learns her only inheritance is debt—and her father’s promise that somewhere on his plantation lies a buried treasure. To save her own life—as well as that of her sister—she’ll need to find it before her white cousins take possession of the land.
British officer Henry Farlow, dazed from a wound received in battle outside New Orleans, stumbles onto Thérèse’s property out of necessity. But he stays because he’s become captivated by her intelligence and beauty. It’s thanks to Thérèse’s tender care that he regains his strength just in time to fend off her cousin, inadvertently killing the would-be rapist in the process.
Though he risks being labeled a deserter, it’s much more than a sense of duty that compels Henry to see the sisters to safety—far away from the scene of the crime. And Thérèse realizes she has come to rely on Henry for so much more than protection. On their journey to freedom in England, they must navigate a territory that’s just as foreign to them both—love.
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Along the way she read her hometown library’s entire collection of Regency romance, fell in love with the works of Jane Austen, and discovered in Patrick O’Brian’s and Bernard Cornwell’s novels another side of the opening decades of the 19th century. When she started to write again as an adult, she knew exactly where she wanted to set her books. Her writing has come a long way from her youthful efforts, but she still gives her heroines great hair.
Susanna grew up in rural Alabama. After high school she left home for the University of Pennsylvania and has been a city girl ever since. She worked in England for a year after college, using her days off to explore history from ancient stone circles to Jane Austen’s Bath.
Susanna lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and daughter. When not writing or reading, she goes to baseball games, sings alto in a local choir and watches cooking competition shows.
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Monday, January 5
Review at Curling Up With a Good Book
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Wednesday, January 7
Review at Becky on Books
Thursday, January 8
Spotlight at Peeking Between the Pages
Saturday, January 11
Review at Carole’s Ramblings
Monday, January 12
Spotlight at CelticLady’s Reviews
Tuesday, January 13
Review at Lusty Penguin Reviews
Review at Historical Fiction Obsession
Wednesday, January 14
Review at Bibliophilia, Please
Interview at Historical Fiction Obsession
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Thursday, January 15
Guest Post at Romantic Historical Reviews
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Friday, January 16
Review at Boom Baby Reviews
Interview at Books and Benches
Thanks Kim, this book sounds good.
ReplyDeletethis sounds fantastic :) I like how it's a historical set in the US with a non traditional heroine! Thanks so much for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteThanks Kim! Another book that sounds great.
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ReplyDeletethere aren't many stories written about this time frame - looks like I'd learn a few things too!
ReplyDeleteI don't usually read many historicals but this sounds good.
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Sounds lovely!
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