Lori Benton
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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...
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Pathfinders (Lori Benton) volume 1
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On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald Aubrey is beside himself with grief. His newborn son 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 choice that will haunt the lives of all involved. He steals the white Indian baby leaving his own child behind in its place. Unable to tell his wife the truth about the boy they call William, Reginald is wracked...
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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When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy--exile to the Colony of North Carolina--he's indentured to Englishman Edmund Carey as a blacksmith. Against his will Alex is drawn into the struggles of Carey's slaves--and those of his stepdaughter, Joanna Carey. A mistress with a servant's heart, Joanna is expected to wed her father's overseer, Phineas Reeves, but finds herself drawn instead to the new blacksmith. As their unlikely...
5) Burning Sky
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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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"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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Forsaking security and the marriage her stepfather forced upon her, Tamsen Littlejohn enlists frontiersman Jesse Bird to guide her to Watauga settlement in North Carolina. As they face hardships that test the limits of Tamsen's faith and endurance, her wealthy suitor and stepfather follow, convinced she's been kidnapped. With trouble in pursuit, thrust into a conflict among settlers, Tamsen must adapt to a life for which she was never prepared.
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