Eden's Gate
By Karen Harper
1989
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2.60
Average Rating
300
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New York's Mohawk Valley during the French and Indian War is the setting for a familiar plot: a pampered mam'selle's true grit—and sexual ardor—are awakened by a red-blooded American. By creating confusion about the purpose of Claire Chandon's incessant journal-writing, Harper ( One Fervent Fire ) skillfully builds romantic tension between the young French actress, posing as a laundress to the British army, and Ethan Trent, an American frontiersman and staunch enemy of the French. by cre ating confusion about the purpose of Claire's incessant journal-writing. But the author miscalculates when she thrusts the lovers into a not-unwelcome marriage of necessity early on, a device that takes the vinegar out of later confrontations over Claire's divided loyalties. Harper sustains interest by placing the lovers' misunderstandings in the context of the 18th-century frontier's multicultural stew, where upper-class Tories, French nobility and American Indians of many tribes daily rubbed shoulders with German, Dutch, Scottish and Irish immigrants. This wider landscape lends Claire and Ethan's story authenticity and depth.
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Karen Harper
Author · 58 books
A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Karen Harper is a former college English instructor (The Ohio State University) and high school literature and writing teacher. A lifelong Ohioan, Karen and her husband Don divide their time between the midwest and the southeast, both locations she has used in her books. Besides her American settings, Karen loves the British Isles, where her Scottish and English roots run deep, and where she has set many of her historical Tudor-era mysteries and her historical novels about real and dynamic British women. Karen's books have been published in many foreign languages and she won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for 2005. Karen has given numerous talks to readers and writers across the county. Her most recent books include THE SOUTH SHORES TRILOGY (CHASING SHADOWS, DROWNING TIDES and FALLING DARKNESS.) Her latest historical is THE ROYAL NANNY. Please visit her website at www.KarenHarperAuthor and her fb page at www.facebook.com/KarenHarperAuthor
