I took a short break from blogging this week. Only two posts and both feature the same book! Call me lazy, I don’t care! 😉 It has been quite the year already. I spent the month of January furiously working on a book festival. February found me traveling somewhere Every. Single. Week! And the first week in March is no different. However, this week I am in the north Georgia mountains with good friends doing nothing but relaxing, including plenty of time for reading. I have needed this time to just be, so two blog posts is all I could muster.
My First Line Friday choice is also my book club selection for the month. Killing a lot of birds with one stone. If you haven’t read The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz, what are you waiting for?
Here’s the first line to pique your interest.
Amid the timeless silence of the verdigris parlor, Juliet remained seated in her Chippendale chair . . . for the third hour.
Virigina plantation life is all she has ever known.
But could the life she was meant to live be waiting on a distant shore?
In 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. Indigo cultivation is her foremost concern, though its export tethers her family to the powerful Buchanan clan of Glasgow, Scotland.
When the heir of the Buchanan firm arrives on their shores, Juliet discovers that her father has arranged for one of his daughters to marry the Scot as a means of canceling the family’s crippling debt. Confident it will be her younger, lovelier sister, Juliet is appalled when Leith Buchanan selects her instead.
Despite her initial refusal, Juliet realizes that fleeing Virginia is her only choice after finding herself in the midst of a scandal. The ship just leaving the harbor for Glasgow is her only hope. But she will soon realize that being part of the complex and calculating Buchanan clan is not the sanctuary she imagined–and the man who saved her from ruin is the very one she must now save in return.
Bestselling, award-winning author, Laura Frantz, has been writing stories since age seven. She is passionate about all things historical, particularly the 18th-century and her novels often incorporate Scottish themes that reflect her family heritage. She is a direct descendant of George Hume, Wedderburn Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland, who was exiled to the American colonies for his role in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, settled in Virginia, and is credited with teaching George Washington surveying in the years 1748-1750. Proud of her heritage, she is also a Daughter of the American Revolution. Though she will always consider Kentucky home, she and her husband live in Washington State.
Readers can find Laura Frantz at http://www.laurafrantz.net.
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