Laura Frantz Books in Order

In 1777 New Jersey, sisters Mae and Coralie Bohannon find their home filled with American officers even as family members choose Patriot or Loyalist sides. Mae's growing bond with General Rhys Harlow and suspicions about her sister's British lover lead her toward a dangerous frontier mission.

In 1774 Virginia, indigo planter Juliet Catesby learns her indebted father has promised one of his daughters in marriage to Scottish merchant Leith Buchanan. When scandal forces her to leave for Glasgow as his bride, Juliet is drawn into clan rivalries, questions of slavery, and an unexpected partnership.

Banished from his beloved Acadie after the French and Indian War, Bleu Galant is focused on survival until an unexpected turn brings him to Virginia's Rivanna River settlement. Drawn to determined Brielle Farrow, he follows her into a world of privilege overseas where both their futures are at stake.

Acadian seamstress Sylvie Galant lives between rival French and British forts on Canada's coast as war looms. Forced from her homeland and scattered by deportation, she crosses paths again with ranger William Blackburn and must rebuild a life amid loss, prejudice, and a fragile hope for belonging.

Years after The Rose and the Thistle, Orin Hume has become Poet Laureate in glittering London, yet unresolved tragedy and a lost love pull him home to Scotland. Returning to Wedderburn, he must face Duchess Maryn Lockhart, missing letters, and family schemes that threaten their second chance.

During the Jacobite uprising of 1715, English heiress Lady Blythe Hedley flees to Wedderburn Castle in the Scottish Lowlands. There she clashes and slowly connects with laird Everard Hume while navigating dangerous politics, shifting alliances, and a question of whom she can truly trust.

In 1755 Virginia, chocolatier Esmée Shaw has resigned herself to singleness until privateering captain Henri Lennox returns with plans to build a lighthouse they once dreamed of together. As war with France and secret orders threaten him, they must decide if love can weather regret and risk.

In seventeenth century James Towne, shopkeeper's daughter Selah Hopewell manages a shipload of tobacco brides while insisting she has no interest in marriage. Widowed planter Xander Renick, tied to both colonists and Powhatan kin, challenges her resolve as tensions and courtship swirl around them.

Tessa Swan has grown up rough and resilient on the western Virginia frontier, guarding her family from raids and loss. When fort commander Clay Tygart returns, carrying his own scars and a rescued captive, danger closes in and both must face what they truly want from life and each other.

On the Scottish Isle of Kerrera, beekeeper and herbalist Lark MacDougall and laird Magnus MacLeish are accused after his sickly wife dies. Banished and sold into indentured servitude across the Atlantic, they must survive shipboard danger and colonial hardship before they can dream of a shared future.

In 1775 Williamsburg, aristocratic yet practical Elisabeth Liberty Lawson is abandoned by her fiancé and suspected of spying for the Crown. Forced to support herself as a lacemaker, she is drawn toward Patriot Noble Rynallt and a perilous choice between loyalty to family and a new cause.

On the rugged Kentucky frontier of 1777, innkeeper's daughter Temperance Tempe Tucker guides surveyor Sion Morgan through dangerous wilderness. As river crossings, ambushes, and old griefs test them both, an unexpected bond grows between two people who are not sure they can trust again.

After the Revolution, nearly destitute Sophie Menzies agrees to a sensible marriage of convenience with widowed General Seamus Ogilvy for the sake of his young daughter. When a woman from his past arrives, Sophie's new place at Tall Acre and the family's fragile happiness are thrown into doubt.

Rowena Wren Ballantyne leaves her simple Kentucky life when a summons draws her to her grandfather's vast Pennsylvania estate. Swept into riverboats, parlors, and suitors she never expected, she struggles to reconcile the glittering Ballantyne legacy with the quieter future her heart desires.

Years later in 1820s Pittsburgh, Ellie Ballantyne returns from finishing school to find her abolitionist family at odds with the powerful Turlock clan. Opening a small day school, she becomes dangerously drawn to Jack Turlock and must weigh family loyalty against a love that crosses that divide.

Apprentice blacksmith Silas Ballantyne arrives in 1780s Pennsylvania determined to earn his freedom and head west. His master instead expects him to marry one of two very different daughters, a choice that entangles Silas in jealousy, buried sins, and decisions that will echo for generations.

Hoping to reunite with her father at a remote Kentucky fort in 1779, Roxanna Rowan instead learns he is dead and takes his place as scrivener to Colonel Cassius McLinn. As war, secrets, and scandal close in, she must decide whether to trust the guarded commander.

Morrow Little has never forgotten the Shawnee raid that shattered her family. With her father failing and several very different men seeking her hand, she is drawn toward a forbidden love that forces her to confront grief, prejudice, and the meaning of forgiveness.

Lael Click, daughter of a Kentucky frontiersman, comes of age in a fragile settlement haunted by her family's ties to the Shawnee. When feuds, war, and a new doctor unsettle her world, she must choose what she is willing to risk for love and grace.