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AN UNCOMMON WOMAN by Laura Frantz

1/30/2020

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Buckhannon River, West Virginia, Spring 1770  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

 
Fresh as spring redbud and dogwood blossoms embellishing the banks of the Buckhannon River, An Uncommon Woman beguiled me deep into the pages of story. My desire to experience this frontier settlement through Tessa Swan and Colonel Clay Tygart’s eyes only grew as I spent time with them. Trouble and tensions brewed naturally among Shawnee, Cherokee, and white cultures. Battles over freedom from slavery, growing provisions that were necessary for survival, and the white man’s presence intensified becoming extremely life threatening.

Tessa Swan’s concerns and fears were valid and understandable and I loved seeing how she faced her heart-wrenching challenges and losses. Somehow, I always feel as though I’ve come away knowing a new friend or friends when I read Laura Frantz’s novels. Stating that this is a novel feels too confining for the experience of delving into the hearts and trials painted with language adorned with the cadence befitting the time, place, and mood Laura shares. I feel that I’ve come away enlightened about those who braved the frontier. Their dangers, worries, and courage to press on—though their very lives were at stake. Yet, this tale also made me embrace the concerns of the Indian tribes struggling with these intruders to their land, their way of life, and future of their children. Disease, a seemingly silent warrior, stole their numbers, making them vulnerable.

An Uncommon Woman is a precious story—another favorite—and definitely highly recommended! Laura’s superpower is to land characters on the page that will not allow me to walk away! Memorable and endearing, these are characters who make me want to walk taller and strive for decency ever harder. Bravo Laura! This story holds my heart, leads me in adventuresome thoughts, and challenges me to consider more deeply those who lived here long and those who settled under terrifyingly dangerous situations.
 
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Laura Frantz link
2/27/2020 09:29:33 pm

Dear Sue, Your web home is beautiful & I’m so thankful to be here. Endless thanks for your reading time & review. You make me want to read my own book. 💛

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Susan Marlene link
3/10/2020 04:30:10 pm

Thank you, Laura! For your sweet words and for writing such thrilling fiction that reflects how life was in the by-gone days! It is always a thrill to read your stories! Blessings and joy! <3

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    Susan Marlene is the author of Sisters & Friends, HEARTS FOREVER FAITHFUL and SHORT STORIES, Some Fanciful, Some True, A Collection from Various Time Periods & Adventurous Tales, as well as ​Splashes of Hope, A Trio of Short Stories.

    She has published in these venues also. 

    www.ChristianDevotions.us and in Splickety Love Magazine, The Novice, and  newspapers. She writes devotions, fiction, and nonfiction. She is a member and co-founder of Pens of Praise Christian Writers 
    Group.  She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW).

    ​She speaks at writers' groups and prepares devotions and teachings often for Pens of Praise Christian Writers,  and was a former member of Jerry Jenkins Writers Guild. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and Alternative Education Teacher’s Aide. She loves  antiques and misses  her Leonberger, but loves her Boxer who fills their lives with love and laughter. Her cat was the queen of the household and is also dearly missed. 

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