A MOONBOW NIGHT
by
LAURA FRANTZ
Genre: Historical Romance / Christian
Publisher: Revell / Baker Publishing Group
Date of Publication: January 3, 2017
Number of Pages: 384
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After fleeing Virginia, Temperance Tucker and her family established an inn along the Shawnee River. It’s a welcome way station for settlers and frontiersmen traveling through the wild Cumberland region of Kentucky—men like Sion Morgan, a Virginia surveyor who arrives at the inn with his crew, looking for an experienced guide.
Though he balks when Tempe is appointed to lead his team through the wilderness, it isn’t long before Sion must admit that her abilities may outmatch his own. But can the tenuous tie they are forming survive the dangers waiting just around the bend?
With her signature sweeping style and ability to bring the distant past to vivid life, Laura Frantz beckons you to join her in a land of Indian ambushes, conflicting loyalties, and a tentative love that meanders like a cool mountain stream.
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PRAISE FOR A MOONBOW NIGHT:
“From the very first page, A Moonbow Night charmed me into its story, a story as earthy, rugged, and beguiling as the early American terrain upon which it has been laid. The book offers everything this reader wants: fidelity to history with rich, sensory details of time and place; names we’ve known fleetingly from the annals of the past who quicken on the page; fictional friends for whose happiness and romantic redemption we yearn. Tempe is a Kentucky heroine worth our time and heart’s investment—a waif on the outside, steel on the inside, kind in every situation. In Sion we find a hero worthy of the title, willing to grapple with his past to own his present and claim his lady. The plot is complex, tense, and layered and resolves in a most satisfying conclusion. This remarkable, elegantly written novel pulses with life and is a must-read for all who love historical romance.”
—Sandra Byrd, author of A Lady in Disguise
“A Moonbow Night captures the wilds of a young and unyielding American frontier with breathtaking action and Laura Frantz’s signature mastery in storytelling. The effortless merging of narrative with intelligent dialogue allows the spot-on historical research to shine. Sion’s understated valor is in perfect step with Tempe’s independence, making them a pairing that will keep readers turning pages and rooting for them to the end. This is an exquisite novel of love and loss, and a sweet reminder that even in an untamed world, the gentle grace of God heals all wounds.”
—Kristy Cambron, author of The Illusionist’s Apprentice and the Hidden Masterpiece series
“As timeless as it is historical, A Moonbow Night is the shining embodiment of everything Laura Frantz does best, from her trademark attention to detail to the unfolding of rich and textured love in a setting no less complex. To read this novel is to take a journey along with the characters, inhabiting the story with all five senses. Truly, a book to savor and revisit.”
—Jocelyn Green, award-winning author of The Mark of the King
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What in the world is a MOONBOW?
Ever since I was a little girl growing up in Kentucky, I’ve always been enchanted with the phenomenon of the moonbow, when mist and moonlight combine to create the night’s version of a rainbow. Known to occur in only two places in the world, Cumberland Falls in the Daniel Boone National Forest is one of them. I never dreamed I’d someday include it in the story, A Moonbow Night.
Perhaps my hero and heroine explain it best in this excerpt below…
“A moonbow?”
She faced him again, drawn by his earnest query. “It’s a wonderment, I’ll give you that, if the signs are right.”
“The signs?”
“A full moon . . . ample mist . . . patience.”
He studied the sky. “Patience I have. The moon looks fair enough. I don’t know about the mist.”
She smiled without wanting to. He’d removed his hat and angled it over his heart. Whether deliberately or without guile she didn’t know. The effect was the same. For a few lightheaded seconds she forgot her shift. Her tumbled hair. Her resistance.
“You could tarry awhile,” he said.
When I first began thinking about writing this particular novel, it was the unique setting that drew me. I wondered if it would draw readers, too. Since I’ve visited Cumberland Falls many times over my lifetime, the place has a special hold on my heart. Experiencing the moonbow is truly a unique, unforgettable happening. Who but God could have created a night time rainbow? I found it the perfect romantic backdrop.
Since A Moonbow Night contains some dark Kentucky history, the lovely setting seemed to offset the brutality of the frontier somewhat. Despite bloodshed and war and the shattering hardships of the 18th-century, the moonbow still shone. It holds a promise of hope then and now, much like the Biblical rainbow in the Bible. A bridge between heaven and earth.
On a scientific note, the colors of the moonbow are difficult for the human eye to discern and look mostly white though in long exposure photographs the colors come clear and are mostly pastels while daylight rainbows are more vibrant. Fall and winter are said to be the best time to view the moonbow due to the cold air and clear atmosphere. A full moon is paramount. And, as our heroine says, mist and patience are necessary, too.
Cumberland Falls is located in Southeastern Kentucky along the Cumberland River, so named in 1750 after an early explorer came into the region. The waterfall is 125 feet wide and has a 68 foot drop. The park is open year round and admission is free.
If there aren’t any trips to Cumberland Falls in the near future, I invite you to join our hero and heroine in a wilderness adventure rife with real historical characters and real historical events from 1777 Kentucky. I so hope you enjoy A Moonbow Night!
Laura Frantz is a Christy Award finalist and the author of several books, including The Frontiersman’s Daughter, Courting Morrow Little, The Colonel’s Lady, The Mistress of Tall Acre, and the Ballantyne Legacy series. She lives and writes in a log cabin in the heart of Kentucky.
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