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Queen of Swords

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Queen of Swords

By: Sara Donati
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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 It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke’s wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet’s rescue, so long in coming, is not the resolution they’d hoped for. In the spring she had given birth to Luke’s son, and in the summer Jennet had found herself compelled to surrender the infant to a stranger in the hope of keeping him safe.

To claim the child, Hannah, Luke, and Jennet must journey first to Pensacola. There they learn a great deal about the family that has the baby. The Poiterins are a very rich, very powerful Creole family, totally without scruple. The matriarch of the family has left Pensacola for New Orleans and taken the child she now claims as her great-grandson with her.

New Orleans is a city on the brink of war, a city where prejudice thrives and where Hannah, half Mohawk, must tread softly. Careful plans are made as the Bonners set out to find and reclaim young Nathaniel Bonner. Plans that go terribly awry, isolating them from each other in a dangerous city at the worst of times.

Sure that all is lost, and sick unto death, Hannah finds herself in the care of a family and a friend from her past, Dr. Paul de Guise Savard dit Saint-d’Uzet. It is Dr. Savard and his wife who save Hannah’s life, but Dr. Savard’s half brother who offers her real hope. Jean-Benoit Savard, the great-grandson of French settlers, slaves, and Choctaw and Seminole Indians, is the one man who knows the city well enough to engineer the miracle that will reunite the Bonners and send them home to Lake in the Clouds. With Ben Savard’s guidance, allies are drawn from every segment of New Orleans’s population and from Andrew Jackson’s army, now pouring into the city in preparation for what will be the last major battle of the War of 1812.©2006 Sara Donati; (P)2006 Books on Tape Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction World Literature Romance Marriage Royalty New Orleans Wilderness
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Great storytelling. I have read and listened to a lot of sophisticated, clever and well written books. Queen of Swords, together with all the other books in the series are some of my favourites. It's been an absolute pleasure to listen to Kate Reading too.

Worth every minute of listening

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Love story with lots of interest in other things enjoyed it very much looking forward to the next book

Wonderful book

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Top quality writing set in early 1800s America.
Strong female lead.
Historic facts woven with family saga that includes black, white and red skinned people who all unite in one family against a backdrop of prejudice. Hunter gatherers and farmers, educated in Medicines old and new, these people fight against the elements and the times in which they live. Frontier’s lives all told by a hypnotic deep voiced female narrator.
Highly recommended.
I look forward to the next book in the series.

Narrator weaves a spell with her voice

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A fascinating period in American and British/Scottish history. The whole of the series has been brought to live with characters that just leave off the page. The writing is always clear and concise, the characters totally believable, and there is enough historical and medical facts to keep anyone interested in these genres unable to put the book down. And of course there is romance.

Absorbing for the story characters and history

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The story and the narrator cannot be praised too highly. I’m aware I’ve nearly finished this series now and am already feeling the loss! I tried the books after seeing them suggested on a Facebook page. I am genuinely grateful for the suggestion.

Totally absorbing.

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