Beth White's day job is teaching music at an inner-city high school in historic Mobile, Alabama. A native Mississippian, she is a pastor's wife, mother of two, and grandmother of one--so far. Her hobbies include playing flute and pennywhistle and painting, but her real passion is writing historical romance with a Southern drawl. Her novels have won the American Christian Fiction Writers Carol Award, the RT Book Club Reviewers Choice Award, and the Inspirational Reader's Choice Award. Visit www.bethwhite.net for more information.
The Pelican Bride (Gulf Coast Chronicles Book #1): A Novel
by Beth White
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ISBN-13:
9781441245472
- Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
- Publication date: 04/15/2014
- Series: Gulf Coast Chronicles , #1
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 368
- Sales rank: 175,350
- File size: 3 MB
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It is 1704 when Genevieve Gaillain and her sister board a French ship headed for the Louisiana colony as mail-order brides. Both have promised to marry one of the rough-and-tumble Canadian men in this New World in order to escape religious persecution in the Old World. Genevieve knows life won't be easy, but at least here she can establish a home and family without fear of beheading. But when she falls in love with Tristan Lanier, an expatriate cartographer whose courageous stand for fair treatment of native peoples has made him decidedly unpopular in the young colony, Genevieve realizes that even in this land of liberty one is not guaranteed peace. And a secret she harbors could mean the undoing of the colony itself.
Gulf Coast native Beth White brings vividly to life the hot, sultry south in this luscious, layered story of the lengths we must go to in order to be true to ourselves, our faith, and our deepest loves.
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Based on a little-known true story of "The Pelican Girls," this first installment in a new trilogy is set in the Louisiana Territory in 1704. The novel centers on a feisty young Frenchwoman named Geneviève Gaillain and her sister, Aimee, who escape France for a greater life in the New World as mail-order brides. Life in the colonies lacks the creature comforts of France, but it's better than a French jail, where Geneviève was held prisoner before her aided escape. Geneviève's husband, Tristan Lanier, also has secrets of his own that could destroy their marriage and their lives. VERDICT A lush and highly detailed historical setting sets an atmospheric tone for this tale of love and life in New France. The well-researched story of the Pelican Girls, so named for the ship that brought them, is an unembellished look at a slice of the human experience not often told. Recommended for fans of historical fiction.