Tidewater Bride by Laura Frantz is a historical fiction novel based in Jamestown, Virginia, in the 1630s. Many of the characters were based on real people from the time. Two characters especially may jog the reader's memory from history: Xander Renick represented John Rolfe, and his Powhatan princess Mattachanna represented Pocahontas. Xander is a widower with a young son. He runs a plantation and works alongside his indentured servants in Rose-n-Vale, several miles upriver from James Towne. He ...

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