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Welcome to the Blog Tour for A Novel-Tea Evening with Authors including Lynn Austin, Susie Finkbeiner, Jocelyn Green, Laura Frantz, Kate Breslin, Amanda Barratt, and Joanna Davidson Politano, sponsored by JustRead Publicity Tours!
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-- 'THE ROSE AND THE THISTLE' --
AUTHOR LAURA FRANTZ
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Title: The
Rose & The Thistle
Author: Laura Frantz
Publisher: Revell
Release Date: January 3, 2023
Genre: Christian Historical Romance
In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Blythe quietly awaits the crowning of a new king. But in a house with seven sons and numerous servants, her presence soon becomes known.
No sooner has Everard Hume lost his father, Lord Wedderburn, than Lady Hedley arrives with her maid in tow. He has his own problems--a volatile brother with dangerous political leanings, an estate to manage, and a very young brother in need of comfort and direction. It would be best for everyone if he could send this misfit heiress on her way as soon as possible.
In this whirlwind of intrigue, ambitions, and shifting alliances, Blythe yearns for someone she can trust. But the same forces that draw her and Everard together also threaten to tear them apart.
EXCERPT:
Struck by sunlight, the sprawling chateau was a blinding, rose-hued white. It reminded Lady Blythe Hedley of home, of her family's Northumbrian castle with its pink harled walls, a pearl in an emerald-green meadow. Tipping her straw hat slightly forward, Blythe glanced up at the royal apartments and terraces on the second floor before turning toward the River Seine and the chateau's famous gardens.
Her companions walked ahead of her. Were they finally tired of flirting with the officers of the Gardes du Corps who stood watch? Only Lady Catherine Stuart tarried, linking arms with her old friend before continuing down the gravel path, their maids following at a discreet distance.
"How fetching you look in your pale green gown, La Belle Hedley. Akin to a stalk of celery," Catherine teased, knowing Blythe didn't give a fig for fashion and lamented her height, exceeding most of the court's gallants. "And though you may roll your eyes at me for saying so, there's no doubt you are the best-dressed woman here and have set French society afire."
'Tis not my fashion sense but my mother’s reputation that has done so. "I would rather spend it all on books than silks and ribbons," Blythe replied. But her dear father wouldn't let her. The duke was far more matrimonially minded than she. And given she lacked any outward beauty save her garments, fashion was her one asset.
from: Laura Frantz, The Rose and the Thistle
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2023. Used by permission.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Laura Frantz is a Christy Award winner and the ECPA bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including The Frontiersman's Daughter, Courting Morrow Little, The Lacemaker, and A Heart Adrift. She is a proud mom of an American soldier and a career firefighter. A direct descendent of George Hume of Wedderburn Castle, who was exiled to the American colonies for his role in the Jacobite Rebellion, Laura lives with her husband in Washington State.
Connect with Laura by visiting laurafrantz.net to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.
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September 2, 2023 at 7 p.m.
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thank you for being on the tour, June! :)
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