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Sixteen-year-old Cecilia Moore marries Kenneth Black as the first battles of the American Revolution swirl through the southern colonies. What Cecilia wants is to leave Three Sisters Tavern in Wilmington, North Carolina, and be mistress of her own home. What she finds at the lonely Black farm at Rocky Point are neglect and betrayal. Then Kenneth's murder leaves her no choice but to take charge and use her skills to survive. Cecilia has her baby, starts a salt works at Topsail Sound, opens a cheese factory in her kitchen and learns to grow tobacco as a cash crop. She deals with roving vandals, and British troops when redcoats move into Wilmington. With the words of he Declaration of Independence alive in her head, she frees her slaves. Cecilia knows she has played a small part in spreading the sparks of freedom. Then she surprises everyone with her plans for the future in the new state. Cecilia sees fields ripe for harvest in this sequel to the acclaimed "The Anchor - P. Moore, Proprietor."

With her mother on the run, suspected of being a traitor, and with a new baby on the way, 1780 is shaping up to be a tough year for Betsy Sheridan. Things become even more dangerous for the seventeen-year-old when she discovers the father of her child has been posing as a loyalist to smuggle information to patriot spies in the Carolinas. Then Betsy learns that the man she has always thought to be her own father was not - that her real father was blacksmith Mathias Hale. Hale and Betsy's mother, Sophie Barton, are reputed to be hiding in South Carolina. Betsy and her husband, Clark, travel to the Georgia frontier town of Alton to pick up the trail of her fugitive parents, only to come under the suspicions of British Lieutenant Dunstan Fairfax. Mathias and Sophie had escaped Fairfax's clutches earlier, and now the brutal redcoat sees a way to exact a measure of revenge through Betsy and Clark. Filled with action and suspense, The Blacksmith's Daughter is the second book following the exploits of Sophie Barton and her family as they are forced to choose sides in the war for American independence. From frontier Georgia, to the South Carolina back country, finally climaxing with the Battle of Camden, Suzanne Adair has earned her place as a rising star of historical fiction!

As 1780 draws to a close, the publisher of a loyalist magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina, assigns Helen Chiswell, his society page writer, to pose as the widowed sister of a British officer and join an encampment of the British Legion. Helen, a loyalist, must confront her past to save her life during the War for American Independence.

When a Yankee insurance detective presses reporter Coleman Blue to conduct an investigation of suspicious deaths of slaves, Blue gets more excitement than he bargained for. On the eve of the Civil War, Blue is suddenly asking himself hard questions, and the answers he finds will leave him fighting for his life.

Sophie Barton wants to mind her own business, helping run her father's small newspaper in the Georgia frontier town of Alston. She is being courted by the commander of the British garrison, and has friends among both the white colonists and the nearby Native American community - one of whom may be something more than a friend. But there is a war on, and unfortunately her father, Will St. James, has chosen sides. When he stages his own death, Sophie learns Will has joined with those who want independence for England's American colonies. Will's activities bring unwanted the unwanted attentions of the British, mostly in the person of Lt. Dunstan Fairfax - a vile man who uses his uniform to torture those who oppose him. Learning that her father may be alive, and with herself under a cloud of suspicion from the redcoats, Sophie and friends set out on a harrowing journey to find the truth about Will St. James. In the process, they make their own committments to the cause of liberty. From the backwoods and Indian lodges of colonial Georgia, to the swamps of Florida, to America's first settlement at St. Augustine, and finally to a climax in Havana, Cuba, Suzanne Adair has written a tale that will thrill historical fiction fans. Full of advanture, romance, mystery and suspense, Paper Woman will leave you wanting more!