A HEART ADRIFT – Laura Frantz

As storm clouds gather with the stirrings of war , “A Heart Adrift” by Laura Frantz shines a beacon of light on God’s amazing grace and the beauty of redemptive love. This poignant, heartmoving tale of difficult decisions, second chances and brave, heartwringing choices is the perfect blend of history, faith, and love sacrificed at the burning altar of ambition and desire. The two main characters battle to come to terms with their feelings and emotions, as Henri chooses ambition at the cost of Esmée’s love. She is endearing as a woman with a brilliant intellect, persevering against the rigid constraints of her time. Laura Frantz’s richly painted tapestry of history, beautifully blending with heroism, wins the hearts of readers with its intricate plot and fascinating storyline. Laura Frantz, the queen of epic historical fiction is at the height of her pinnacle of success. She has an amazing gift of portraying the conflicting emotions of the human heart exactly as they occur in real life. Her realistic characters are richly endowed with the fullness of life. Exquisitely portrayed, expertly crafted and elegantly penned, “A Heart Adrift” proves its own worth among books of sterling quality. Laura Frantz has a fascinating way with words, lacing her novels with fresh hope and the beauty of dreams fulfilled. In addition to exploring the hearts, thoughts and feelings of Esmée and Henri, the relationship between two different sisters, gentle, thoughtful, loving Esmée, who finds all she ever wanted against the backdrop of a love sacrificed, lost and found, and simplehearted, vivacious Eliza, who discovers everything she is in the wake of what she thought she was. I highly recommend this novel of the heart to all readers who seek to find satisfaction and fulfillment in the brain world of books.

TIDEWATER BRIDE – Laura Frantz

In “Tidewater Bride”, Laura Frantz transports readers to seventeenth century Virginia, where the honorable values of commendable pride and the restorative power of pure love blend together, in a beautiful inspirational historical romance, with its well-rounded characters and tense frontier conflicts. Two fiercely independent main characters, Alexander Renick and Selah Hopewell, are inexplicably drawn together by conspiring circumstances. Can they find true happiness and ultimate fulfillment on their own or together?

Xander is a man of singular intentions and sterling qualities. No finer man could be found in Virginia. He was determined and resolute, with piercing, quicksilver eyes and an elusive smile that revealed nothing. Xander knew his own mind, having accomplished much, and honestly too, by the sweat of his brow and his agile mind.

Selah Hopewell, lovely with her corn-silk hair and intelligent green eyes, called Xander “irreplaceable”. He called her generous with her praise, confident that her prayer would go with him, being a far more formidable weapon than warfare.

Xander’s late wife, the beautiful Mattachana, was gracious and astute. Her heartfelt plea was to be instructed in Christianity, to learn more about ‘the talking book’, and the living God of the Bible. Because of her openness to Xander’s faith, their own relationship had blossomed in engagement, and flowered in marriage, with the birth of their only son, Oceanus. Selah and Mattachana had been good friends.

Whenever Selah thought of Xander, a wistful twinge wrung her sensitive heart, beauty intermingled with bittersweet. When Selah’s father invited Xander to share a meal with them, to be comforted in his trouble by the comfort with which they themselves were comforted by God, Selah longed to rewind the sad past, turn the tide back and greet Xander with the solace and understanding he so deserved in such a time of grief. In this deeply-moving story of honorable Christian values, award-winning fiction author, Laura Frantz delights readers with her lyrical, historically accurate novels, and gifted art of story-telling, that swings early America back to life, with the dramatic swish of a pen! I highly recommend this beautiful book to all readers who want the highest and best to grace their bookshelves for all time to come.

Miriam Jacob

The Lacemaker – by Laura Frantz

IMPRINT: REVELL, PUBLISHER: BAKER PUBLISHING GROUP

ISBN: 9781493412501. Pub. Date: Jan 2018. PRICE: $15.99

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The dashing young hero of “The Lacemaker,” Noble Rynallt, is truly noble and lives up to his name. The gracefully elegant and beautiful heroine, Lady Liberty’s great resourcefulness, in the face of the utterly devastating loss of everything most precious to her heart, reveals a woman of incredible courage, strength and determination. Laura Frantz has a fastidious approach to historical research and pays an impeccable attention to detail. Her clear-cut characterisation has an uncanny ability to revive heartfelt emotion in her readers with living, breathing characters, large as life. In “The Lacemaker,” Laura presents a highly suspenseful story of true love, cunning twists of betrayal, and brand new beginnings. With her flawless, meticulous eye for detail in historical fiction, Laura Frantz enchants her readers into the beautiful world of historical romance to make them feel a warm part of her incredible story.

Miriam Jacob