The Blue Cloak (True Colors) Review
My Review
I have read and enjoy all of the books in the True Colors series. It's a fictional series based off of true crime happenings in the past.
This one dealt with some tough subjects and didn't play out as I expected it to. It was interesting to read the author's notes in the back of the book explaining the story based on fact and read about it more in depth.
Not for the faint of heart there is brutality and a crime spree. Get ready
for edge of your seat action. Published March 1st 2020 by Barbour Books I was given a complimentary copy of this book. Thank you. All opinions expressed are my own.
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GoodReads Summary
Based on real events beginning in 1797 — Rachel Taylor lives a rather mundane existence at the way station her family runs along the Wilderness Road in Tennessee. She attends her friend’s wedding only to watch it dissolve in horror as the groom, Wiley Harpe, and his cousin become murderers on the run, who drag their families along. Declaring a “war on all humanity,” the Harpes won’t be stopped, and Ben Langford is on their trail to see if his own cousin was one of their latest victims. How many will die before peace can return to the frontier?
The Author
Website
ShannonMcNear
Genre
Historical Fiction, Christian, Romance
Influences
Alexandre Dumas, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mary Stewart, Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt, Louis L'Amour, Dick Francis, Francine Rivers, Stephen Bly, Karen Hancock, Kathy Tyers, Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, Robin McKinley, Elizabeth George Speare, Marguerite Henry, Brandilyn Collins
Shannon has been writing one thing or another since third grade and finished her first novel at age fifteen—but waited more than thirty years for her first book contract. In the meantime, she graduated from high school, attended college, met and married her husband, birthed nine children, lost one, taught five to drive, revised that first story innumerable times, and completed six others. Her first published novella, Defending Truth, in A Pioneer Christmas Collection (Barbour, 2013 & 2015), was a 2014 RITA® nominee. She writes regularly for Colonial Quills, is a member of ACFW and RWA, and is represented by Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steve Laube Agency. Transplanted to North Dakota after more than two decades in Charleston, South Carolina, she loves losing herself in local history. When this homeschooling mom isn't sewing, researching, or leaking story from her fingertips, she enjoys being outdoors, basking in the beauty of the northern prairies.
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