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Westward Women (Hardcover)
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Westward Women (Hardcover)
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Book I, The Lady of Athenia, deals with a 23-year-old widowed
Southern Belle, punished by vengeful Union Officers who order the
destruction of her Mississippi plantation, Athenia, forcing the now
destitute Davida Julianna Asherton to head West. After much
hardship, she finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy to murder
President Andrew Johnson. Book II, The Bright Sentinel, concerns a
17-year-old emancipated slave. Her story covers Maryland plantation
life, the cruelty of her Scottish father, and her perilous escape
to Washington, D.C. The Creole beauty is enmeshed in a political
scandal, grabs blackmail money and hurriedly boards the first
stagecoach West. She meets her future husband, a gun-toting cattle
ranch foreman, and both are hired by the government to discredit
the leader of the Crow Indians, who are threatening to overrun
Wyoming-Dakota Territory. Book III, Flaxen-Haired Warrior, focuses
on a German Count's family destroyed in the 1870 Franco-Prussian
War. 19-year-old Countess Lisl Maria Von Ost flees toward France.
An expert swordswoman, she is forced to kill three enemy soldiers
who attacked her. Hired assassins chase her through warring France
and neutral Belgium. paid killers pursue her even there. Desperate,
Maria escapes into the western frontier.
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