I just recently heard of Laura Frantz from my aunt. I'm a sucker for good, historically correct novels and it seemed to me like Laura Frantz had actually done her research well.
I really enjoyed reading her books, which I was able to borrow from our church library while we were in the U.S. Except for her Ballantyne Legacy series and her newest unpublished novel, I was priveleged to read all of her books.
Each book is a standalone, but the books themselves are wonderful stories of history and real life figures. Her books include English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, American, and Native American characters and cultures. The stories she weaves keep you guessing until the end.
She includes history in her novels, not just the fictional story. Some of her characters were real men and women. The stories she writes are fictional, but they seem very real. Her characters even speak with the accents you would find in the above-mentioned countries.
Besides being historically accurate, Laura's books are also stories of faith and redemption. They hold the key aspects of love and forgiveness. In each of her books, she writes from a Biblical perspective that betters the whole story with its aspects of faith and hope.
Her books include
The Rose and the Thistle
The Lacemaker
A Bound Heart
The Frontiersman's Daughter
A Moonbow Night
An Uncommon Woman
The Mistress of Tall Acre
Tidewater Bride
The Colonel's Lady
Courting Morrow Little
The Ballantyne Legacy series
And her newest novel, The Seamstress of Acadie
My personal favorites were probably The Rose and the Thistle, An Uncommon Woman, Courting Morrow Little, and The Mistress of Tall Acre, although I really liked all of them. I would highly recommend them to anyone into historical romances and even those who are not.
I must warn you, though, these books are hard to put down. Laura Frantz does a very good job in drawing the reader in!
