Once inside its embrace, the book offers everything this reader wants: fidelity to history with rich sensory details of time and place names we’ve known fleetingly from the annals of the past who quicken on the page fictional friends for whose happiness and romantic redemption we yearn. “From the very first page, A Moonbow Night charmed me into its story, a story as earthy, rugged, and beguiling as the early American terrain upon which it has been laid. See Laura’s inspiration for the novel! Check out her Pinterest board for a Moonbow Night HERE With her signature sweeping style and ability to bring the distant past to vivid life, Laura Frantz beckons readers to join her in a land of Indian ambushes, conflicting loyalties, and a tentative love that meanders like a cool mountain stream. Still, the tenuous tie they are forming is put to the test as they encounter danger after danger and must rely on each other. But it is not long before he must admit that Tempe’s skill in the wilderness rivals his own.

It’s a welcome way station for settlers and frontiersmen traveling through the wild Cumberland region of Kentucke–men like Sion Morgan, a Virginia surveyor who arrives at the inn with his crew looking for an experienced guide.

Agent: Janet Kobobel Grant, Books & Such (Jan.On the vast, uncharted Kentucky frontier of 1777…Īfter fleeing Virginia, Temperance Tucker and her family established an inn along the Shawnee River. But the story rewards patience, unfolding with precision and action, showcasing the triumph of the human heart and spirit in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. At times, the sheer scope of the intricate detail and the illuminating details of Daniel Boone lore can become overwhelming.

Both Sion and Tempe are haunted by past tragedy and drawn together by the drive to survive and protect what pieces of comfort they have left-whether it’s family, work, or career status. Sion is a surveyor for the British Loyal Land Company sent out with a small coterie of men, dogs, and horses to mark the wild land for the crown. While her outlaw father is forced to keep a low profile, Tempe, her mother, and brother operate the Moonbow Inn just off the Warrior’s Path located deep in Indian country. After being forced to leave Virginia and take to the trail in one of the first pushes westward, Temperance, also known as Tempe, and her family settle along the Shawnee River on the cusp where Virginia becomes Kentucky. Frantz’s ( The Mistress of Tall Acre) atmospheric historical romance lovingly explores American history circa 1777 with grace.

A Moonbow Night by Laura Frantz