Waiting On Wednesday: With This Pledge

July 18, 2018

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature to spotlight an up and coming release you are most excited about. 

This week is all about my favorite genre, Historical Fiction, mixed with romance. Historical fiction is so fun for me and has a wide selection of authors. This author this week is one who really does some very detailed research and gives a very detailed an emotional depth to her characters. She has become an author I look forward to reading.

Waiting On:
Title: With This Pledge
Author: Tamera Alexander
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: January 8th, 2018

About the Book:
History takes on vivid life in the stunning first full-length installment of Tamera Alexander's new series, The Carnton Novels.

On the night of November 30, 1864, a brutal battle in Franklin, Tennessee, all but decimates the Confederacy and nearly kills Captain Roland Ward Jones. A decorated Mississippi sharpshooter, Jones has a vision on the battlefield and, despite the severity of his wounds, believes his life will be spared. But a life without his leg, he can't abide. He compels Elizabeth "Lizzie" Clouston—governess to the McGavock family at the Carnton mansion—to intervene should the surgeon decide to amputate. True to her word, Lizzie speaks on his behalf and saves not only the captain's leg but also his life.

When a fourteen-year-old soldier dies in Lizzie's arms that night, the boy's final words, whispered with urgency, demand that Lizzie deliver them to their intended recipient. But all she has is the boy's first name. And, as she soon discovers, there's no record of him ever having enlisted. How can she set out alone across a land so divided by war and hatred to honor her pledge? Even more, does she dare accept Captain Jones's offer to accompany her? As he coalesces at Carnton, romance has blossomed between him and Lizzie—a woman already betrothed to a man she does not love.

From the pages of history and the personal accounts of those who endured the Battle of Franklin, Tamera Alexander weaves the real-life love letters between Captain Roland Ward Jones and Elizabeth Clouston into a story of unlikely romance first kindled amid the shadows of war.
What are you waiting on this week?
Let me know in the comments. :-) I'm also looking for new suggestions. 

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