title: A Worthy Groom
author: Couch, Angela K.
description: "
  Love on Colonial America's Frontier
  
   Travel into Colonial America where nine women seek love, but they each know a future husband requires the necessary skills to survive in the backcountry. Living in areas exposed to nature's ferocity, prone to Indian attack, and cut off from regular supplies, can hearts overcome the dangers to find lasting love?
  
  Rooted in Love
  by Carla Gade
   1748, New Hampshire Grants (Vermont)
   Surveyor Shiloh Morgan pursues wild ginseng trade in America's northern frontier. When he encounters mixed-blood healer Truelove Walden, might love take root in his restless heart and bring healing to hers?
  
  Shenandoah Hearts
   by Carrie Fancett Pagels
   1754 - Great Wagon Road, into the Shenandoah Valley (Virginia)
   As the French-Indian War commences, Magda Sehler wonders if Jacob Owens lost his mind to have abandoned his Philadelphia business and moved to the Shenandoah Valley. Or has he lost his heart?
  
  Heart of Nantahala
   by Jennifer Hudson Taylor
   1757 - (North Carolina)
   Joseph Gregory plans to buy a lumber mill, but Mabel Walker becomes a formidable opponent. When she's forced to make a painful decision, she must choose between survival and love.
  
  Her Redcoat
  by Pegg Thomas
   1763 - Fort Michilimackinac (Michigan) during Pontiac's Rebellion
   Laurette Pettigrew grew up in the northern frontier. Henry Bedlow arrived against his will. Their chance meeting changes everything. Will a deadly clash of cultures keep them from finding happiness?
  
  A Heart So Tender
   by Debra E. Marvin
   1764 - (New York)
   As thousands of Native warriors converge on Fort Niagara, jaded British Lieutenant Archibald Walsh and idealistic schoolmistress Susannah Kimball learn the greatest risk lies in guarding their hearts.
  
  A Worthy Groom
  by Angela K. Couch
   1771 - Sapling Grove settlement on the Holston River (Tennessee)
   The Cowden temper has been Marcus's lifelong bane. A trait Lorinda Cowden curses. Now, winning the heart of his bride hinges on fighting a war without raising a fist.
  
   Across Three Autumns by Denise Weimer
   1778-1780 - (Georgia)
   Fighting Loyalists and Indians, Jenny White settles for strength over love . . .until Scottish scout Caylan McIntosh leads her family on a harrowing exodus out of Georgia's Revolutionary "Hornet's Nest."
  
  The Counterfeit Tory
  by Shannon McNear
   1780 - (South Carolina)
   Tasked with infiltrating an infamous Tory gang, Jed Wheeler has no wish to endanger the leader's cousin, Lizzy Cunningham. He risks not only his life. . .but his heart.
  
  Love's Undoing
   by Gabrielle Meyer
   1792 - Fur Post on the Upper Mississippi River (Minnesota)
   When Englishman Henry Kingsley meets Abi McCrea, the daughter of a Scottish fur trader and Indian mother, will their worlds keep them apart, or have they finally found somewhere they truly belong?
  
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