Love’s Reckoning
By Laura Frantz
In this sweeping family
saga set in western Pennsylvania, one man's choices in love and work, in
friends and enemies, set the stage for generations to come. Love's Reckoning
is the first entry in The Ballantyne Legacy, a rich, multi-layered historical
quartet from talented writer Laura Frantz, beginning in the late 1700s and
following the Ballantyne family through the end of the Civil War.
On a bitter December day
in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master
blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master
blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his apprenticeship and move
west. But Liege soon discovers that Silas is a prodigious worker and craftsman
and endeavors to keep him in Lancaster. Silas becomes interested in both of
Liege's daughters, the gentle and faith-filled Eden and the clever and
high-spirited Elspeth. When he chooses one, will the other's jealousy destroy
their love?
Laura Frantz is a lover of history, is the author of The Frontiersman's
Daughter, Courting Morrow Little, and The Colonel's Lady, and
currently lives in the misty woods of Washington with her husband and two sons.
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