Savage lands
By: Clare Clark.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780151014736
Subjects: Soldiers -- Fiction; Mail order brides -- Fiction; Feral children -- Fiction; French -- Louisiana -- Fiction; Louisiana -- History -- To 1803 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In 1704 the French colony of Louisiana needs wives for the struggling settlers and Elisabeth and twenty-three other girls are dispatched to satisfy the request. The skeptical bride soon falls in love with her charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier-husband, Jean-Claude, a passion which is shared by an abandoned cabin boy, Auguste, who has also fallen under the spell of the dashing Jean-Claude. When in time Jean-Claude betrays them both, the two find themselves bound together in ways they never anticipated.