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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laura Frantz is a Christy Award winner and the ECPA bestselling author of fifteen novels, including The Rose and the Thistle, The Frontiersman’s Daughter, Courting Morrow Little, The Lacemaker, and A Heart Adrift. She is the proud mom of an American soldier and a career firefighter. Though she will always call Kentucky home, Laura lives with her husband in Washington State.
Author questions
You live in Washington State which is known as the Evergreen State. Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.
- After living in these two different states, what do you love best about them?
- How do you spend your time on rainy, winter days?
- Can you share a little about your latest read?
- Is there anything especially interesting that you haven’t covered in other interviews that you could share with us or perhaps there is something God has laid on your heart that you would like to share with your readers?
ABOUT THE BOOK The Seamstress of Acadie
Gifted seamstress Sylvie Galant and her Acadian family desire to live peacefully and remain neutral in the upcoming war between the French and the English. But the proximity of their land on Acadie’s rugged shores makes them an easy target. While tensions escalate, Sylvie encounters Major William Blackburn. Although he is a British Army Ranger, Blackburn warns her that the British are poised to invade. But the warning cannot counteract the plans or stop the tide of English soldiers.
William Blackburn has seen firsthand the atrocities that the British have done to the Acadian families and their villages. Rather than participate in the heinous expulsion, Will resigns his commission before a charge of treason is brought against him.
When Sylvie is forcibly removed from her homeland, she finds herself on a ramshackle ship headed to Virginia, where she crosses paths once again with Will. Together they must work through the complex tangle of their shared, shattered past to navigate the present and forge an enduring future.
Book questions
We have a British Army Ranger and a seamstress in a war-ravaged land who are cast into an even more perilous situation, headed for America. This sounds like quite the adventure romance!
- Can you tell us what inspired this story?
- What is the historical significance of Acadie’s Location?
- Concerning the romantic thread, what is special about Sylvie and William?
- What’s next for your writing?
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