The Backcountry Brides Collection | review

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?

Earlier this year I read a novella collection by Barbour Books called Small-Town Brides, and it was a great series of novellas. Now I’ve had the opportunity to read another collection by Barbour Books called The Backcountry Brides Collection. Eight stories written by eight authors who you may recognize, this collection of clean romance stories was entertaining and enjoyable. There were two that I really enjoyed: Her Redcoat by Pegg Thomas and Across Three Autumns by Denise Weimer. I enjoyed being able to read these novellas in the little snippets of time that I have had in the past week. Each novella is a perfect story to read in the time before bed or in the early morning minutes before everyone else has awakened.

Here are my two favorite novellas in the collection:

Her Redcoat by Pegg Thomas

Her Redcoat tells the story of Laurette and Henry in Michigan during the time of Pontiac’s Rebellion. Henry was a British Redcoat soldier. I truly appreciated the significant historical narrative of this novella. Pegg Thomas did a great job making the characters and plot feel real.

Across Three Autumns by Denise Weimer

Across Three Autumns takes place in Georgia when the British decided to try their hand at defeating the South. Jenny is a young lady who feels like she doesn’t stack up to the beauty of other women (especially her sister), but what she doesn’t realize is that her beauty, strength, and bravery are attractive to one Scotsman named Caylan, a Georgia militiaman. Throughout the troubles they face, Caylan and Jenny find themselves slowly developing feelings for each other.

I enjoyed reading about life in the American Frontier. That is a time period that I often don’t see in fiction, and it was thoroughly enjoyable to get lost in that time and take a ride through time with some wonderful characters.

Thank you to Barbour Publishing and JustReads Tours!