These captives’ insight into the Indian way of life in the 1700s brought heart to the story. Their love of their adopted family and friends becomes intertwined with the loss of never growing up with their birth families. Two of the characters were captured and raised by the Lanape Indians, the one true people. It is a story of retaliation and forgiveness. It isn’t a story about how Native Americans are bad and the while settlers are good. There were a variety of engaging characters to keep the story moving forward. Lush with wild-crafting and endurance to absorb, the realism of living near a fort during this era is beautifully pictured.

This is exactly the type of frontier story that I love. Fort Tygart is thankfully near enough to protect them when the surrounding tribes get restless, but is this troubled territory truly where they want to stay? Even after their father is murdered, they fight to keep the land they’re farming. The only life Tessa Swan and her brothers remember are what their parents forged from this western Virginia land along the Buckhannon River.

This book fed that craving with not only the history I love, but settled in around a river with families who tried to cultivate a life in this wild place. I’ll read fiction and non-fiction from that time period, but I especially crave romances featuring these brave people. I am obsessed with 1700s American history. UNCOMMON WOMAN by Laura Frantz is exactly what this early American history lover pines for, and then some.

An uncommon woman by laura frantz