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The Colonel's Lady Analysis

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Originally published in August 2011, The Colonel’s Lady by Laura Frantz is now available as an audiobook. Set in 1779, the story opens with 5 women and a child huddled in a cave in an attempt to evade a band of Indian raiders. Among the group headed to Ft. Endeavor in the Kentucky Territory is Roxanna Rowan. She has travelled all the way from Virginia to meet her father who is about to resign his commission. Upon their safe arrival, however, Roxanna learns her father has been killed by friendly fire. With his dying breath he placed Roxy in the charge of Colonel Cassius McLinn—the man who shot him. I commend Frantz for the way she invites readers into a scene. Whether she is painting a sweeping landscape or an intimate scene between two characters,
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