Tidewater Bride



Tidewater Bride
Laura Franz
Bethany House Publishers

Virginia Colony's most eligible woman is busy matchmaking for a ship of brides, though she has no interest in finding her own mate. Will she reconsider when new revelations about the colony's most eligible landowner come to light? 

Selah Hopewell seems to be the only woman in the Virginia colony who has no wish to marry. True, Jamestown has a shortage of potential wives---but Selah has her hands full assisting in her family's shop. Xander Renick is the most eligible tobacco lord in the settlement. But can he convince Selah to become his Tidewater Bride? 

While this isn't a genre I read too much anymore, there is something very nostalgic for me in coming back to Christian historical fiction. This one wasn't quite as much of a romance as I was expecting, but I enjoyed it more than the last book I read by this author (A Bound Heart, if you're wondering).

This novel's backstory is highly influenced by Pocahontas's history, and while I actually think I would have liked to read a book (maybe someday?) with that actually as a plot, I did find it interesting to focus on the "tobacco brides" of early Virginia Colony. The main characters were likable and the history both sad and intriguing. If I had one complaint, it would be that the plot moves a bit jaggedly for me- it doesn't exactly follow the beats I would expect, and as a result I don't think I was full captured by the story. However, for lovers of colonial-era fiction, Tidewater Bride is still sure to hit many of the right notes.


I received this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

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