Laura Frantz

In 1820s Pittsburgh, the Ballantynes' feud with a neighboring family threatens to shatter the dreams of their youngest daughter, while the man she loves strives to free himself from a violent legacy.

Sheltered since birth at her Kentucky home, Rowena Ballantyne has heard only whispered rumors of her grandfather Silas's vast fortune and grand manor in Pennsylvania. When her father receives a rare letter summoning him to New Hope, Rowena makes the journey with him and quickly finds herself in a whole new world--filled with family members she's never met, dances she's never learned, and a new side to the father she thought she knew. As she struggles...

In the borderlands of 1770 West Virginia there is no place for finer feelings. Charged with keeping the peace with local tribes, a hero of the French and Indian War is determined to stay free of romantic entanglement--until he meets a frontier maiden who just might be able to change his mind. Western Virginia, 1770. Born and bred on the western Virginia frontier along with her five brothers, Tessa Swan is a force to be reckoned with. Raised by Lenape...

Lady Elisabeth Lawson, daughter of the British lieutenant governor of the Virginia Colony, sees tensions rise in her colonial Williamsburg home and begins to develop feelings for Noble Rynallt, who carries a passion for revolution.

In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father's place as scrivener. Before long, it's clear that the colonel himself is attracted to her. But she soon realizes the colonel has grave secrets of his own--some of which have to do with her father's sudden death. Can she ever...