[Angela here, and for the month of may we are having have a little fun here every Wednesday as
authors
from Barbour's Backcountry Brides collection share a little about their
villains! I'll let Gabrielle take it from here:]
Love on Colonial America’s Frontier
Travel into Colonial America where eight 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?
My story, Love’s Undoing,
begins in what would one day become central Minnesota on the banks of
the Upper Mississippi River in 1792 at a Scottish fur post. Abi is the
daughter of a Scottish fur trader and an Indian mother. Early in the
story, she leaves the post and travels to Montreal to find her sister.
She and the hero, Henry, are accompanied by a Chippewa guide, Migizi,
and the man her father hopes she’ll marry, Robert. She longs to get away
from the confines and expectations of the fur post and see what the
world has to offer.
The
villain of the story is Robert who wants to marry Abi and keep her at
the fur post. He doesn’t understand her desire to see the world and
tries to thwart her dream. His enemy is Henry, who is his complete
opposite. At every turn, he tries to belittle Henry and point out his
flaws to Abi. When Abi’s world comes crashing down around her, Robert
swoops in to take her away from Henry and Montreal. He appears to be the
hero, but he’s only returning Abi to the life she doesn’t want. In the
end, Henry saves the day and becomes the real hero Abi deserves.
Gabrielle, Love's Undoing will be a nice read to see how Abi, Henry and Robert battles everything out.
ReplyDeleteAngela, this has been fun this month learning about the villans in The Backcountry Brides Collection. Thank you.