Lori Benton
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Abducted by the Mohawk at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family's New York homestead after twelve years of life with the People. But much has changed: Willa's home is in disrepair; her missing parents are rumored to be Tories; and the young man she once admired, twisted by the horrors of the War of Independence, has claimed ownership of their land. When her Mohawk brother arrives and questions her place...
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North Carolina, 1793
Ian 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, 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...
3) Shiloh
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December 1795
A year has passed since Ian Cameron reluctantly sent his uncle's former slave Seona and their son, Gabriel, north to his kin in Boston. Determined to fully release them, Ian strives to make a life at Mountain Laurel, his inherited plantation, along with Judith, the wife he's vowed to love and cherish. But, when tragedy leaves him alone with his daughter, Mandy, and his three remaining slaves, he decides to return north. An act of kindness...
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The Pathfinders volume Book 2
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"As the Revolutionary War penetrates the Mohawk Valley, two families separated by culture but united by love and faith must find a way to reclaim the son marching toward them in the ranks of their enemies"--
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"When settler Clare Inglesby is widowed and her young son, Jacob, captured by Shawnees, she'll do anything to get him back. Frontiersman and adopted Shawnee, Jeremiah Ring, promises to help her recover Jacob. Once they reach the Shawnees and discover Jeremiah's own Shawnee sister has adopted Jacob, keeping his promise becomes far more complicated"--
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Captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy-- exile to the Colony of North Carolina. Indentured to Englishman Edmund Carey as a blacksmith, Alex is drawn into the struggles of Carey's slaves-- and those of his stepdaughter, Joanna Carey. She is expected to wed her father's overseer, Phineas Reeves, but finds herself drawn instead to the new blacksmith. As tragedies strike the Careys, blame falls unfairly upon Alex. He flees,...
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At the wood's edge cultures collide. Can two families survive the impact? The 1757 New York frontier is home to the Oneida tribe and to British colonists, yet their feet rarely walk the same paths. On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald Aubrey is beside himself with grief. His son, born that day, has died in the arms of his sleeping wife. When Reginald comes across an Oneida mother with newborn twins, one white, one brown, he makes a...
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Western North Carolina, 1787 To escape a threatening stepfather and an unwanted marriage, Tamsen Littlejohn enlists the aid of Jesse Bird, a frontiersman she barely knows, to spirit her away from Morganton, North Carolina, west beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains. Trouble pursues, as the two men intent on seeing her recovered prove relentless in their hunt. Trouble awaits in the form of a divided frontier community. Across the mountains the State of Franklin...