Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday hosted at Reading is my Super Power. It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m delighted to feature The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz. I really enjoy her books and have read all but one.
Royal Vale Plantation, Virginia
February 1774
Amid the timeless silence of the verdigris parlor, Juliet remained seated in her Chippendale chair… for the third hour.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Virginia 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.
426 pages Revell Publisher December 3,2024 publication date
Will you be reading this one? I hope to soon.
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