A Refuge Assured and its enduring characters will leave you both speechless and satisfied by novel's end." Green leaves no stone unturned in depth and detail and crafts a tale as passionate as the time period itself. When he meets a beautiful young Frenchwoman recently arrived from Paris, they are drawn together in surprising ways to fight for the peace and safety for which they long. He wants only to cultivate his hard-won farm near Asylum, but he soon finds himself drawn into the escalating tension of the Whiskey Rebellion. Can the French settlement Asylum offer permanent refuge? Militiaman Liam Delaney proudly served in the American Revolution, but now that the new government has imposed an oppressive tax that impacts his family, he barely recognizes the democracy he fought for. Vivienne flees to Philadelphia, but danger lurks in the French Quarter, as revolutionary sympathizers begin to suspect a young boy left in her care might be the Dauphin.
Yet in revolutionary France, it is a death sentence when the nobility, and those associated with them, are forced to the guillotine. A Refuge Assured and its enduring characters will leave you both speechless and satisfied by novel's end." - Laura Frantz, author of The Lacemaker Fleeing One Revolution to the Aftermath of Another, She Seeks and Dreams of Peace Lacemaker Vivienne Rivard never imagined her craft could threaten her life.
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