John, an escaped Huguenot, returned to France on a mission for the Dutch government, hoping for an opportunity to free his father, a galley slave. As John travelled through France, he faced one danger after another. He hid within a few yards of King Louis XIV, met two Huguenot girls desperate to escape to England, […]
Reviews: Fiction
Review: The Escape: The Adventures of Three Hugenot Children Fleeing Persecution
John’s father, a Huguenot in southern France, was arrested by Father Francis and sentenced to the galleys for life. A few years later the same priest snatched away John’s little sister Manette and sent her to Paris. John’s mother died of grief, and not much later Father Francis let it be known that he was […]
Review: A Lancaster County Christmas
When she was at the doctor’s to renew her sleeping pill prescription, Jamie Fitzpatrick met bubbly Danny Riehl, an Amish six year old. He and his dad were there with his mom, Mattie, who had recently miscarried the first baby she’d conceived since Danny’s birth. When Danny forgot his handmade owl whistle at the office, […]
Review: Love on the Line by Deeanne Gist
Luke Palmer, an undercover Texas Ranger hunting for a notorious train robber, is stationed to the small town of Brenham as a telephone repair and salesman. The switchboard operator, Georgie Gail, a beautiful, opinionated birdwatcher, does not appreciate her new boss. She has her own ideas about many things including train robbers, having met the […]
Review: Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin
Addicted to reading novels, Alice Grace Ripley lost her boyfriend because her nose was always in a book. The very next day, due to Depression era cutbacks, she lost her dream job at the library. Rather than stay home and face small-town gossip, Alice decided to hand-deliver a shipment of donated books to a tiny town in eastern Kentucky […]