In 1808, when Emma marries Eric Montclaire, she believes a fairy tale has just begun. Instead, her husband’s angelic looks only mask a monstrous soul. Praying for mercy, she is devastated when Eric insists on her joining his yearlong group expedition to the Pacific Ocean, following the trail Lewis and Clark blazed just a few years earlier. By the time cartographer Luke Bowen realizes Emma’s plight, it’s too late to easily untangle what has become an epic web of lies, theft, murder, courtroom drama, and a deep longing for love. Only God can show them the way out.
Christophé, Count of St. Laurent, lost his family to the guillotine and fled to Carcasonne. There he meets the Scarlett, a complex, lionhearted widow taken by the undercover aristocrat’s passion for astronomy and its influence upon his faith. Although their acquaintance begins brightly enough, when the Count learns that Scarlett is related to the man who murdered his family, he turns from love and chooses revenge. Heaven only knows what it might take for Christophé to love again, to love his enemy, and to love unconditionally.
Raised in a British-held frontier town during the American Revolution, Isabelle Renoir is a free spirit. She dances in the moonlight as a praise offering to God and enjoys taking her long rifle and knife into the woods for adventure and inspiration. A huge storm throws her into the path of rugged American spy Samuel Holt. After denying their passion for each other, they are captured by Indians and forced to watch the killing of Isabelle’s brother. Together they must fight spiritual forces that no knife or rifle could ever conquer in order to be free.
The Duchess and the Dragon Jamie Carie Paperback, 304 pp., $14.99 B&H Publishing (April 1, 2008)
A tragic mistake forces Drake Weston, Duke of Northumberland, to flee England aboard a ship to America. Serena Winter is a humble, devoted Quaker. Taken by Drake’s air of dark mystery, Serena falls in love, then gets excommunicated when she accepts a non-Quaker’s marriage proposal. Serena is later shocked to discover her new status as a duchess. What follows are hard truths and softening hearts, romance triangles, webs of deceit, and ultimately, the power of grace, love, and passion.