02336cam a2200313 4500 393479876 TxAuBib 20191001120000.0 070802t20052004||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003064127 9780743228138 $15.00 0743228138 $15.00 (OCoLC)162136446 TxAuBib Swerling, Beverly,. Shadowbrook [TP] : a novel of love, war, and the birth of America / Beverly Swerling. 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2005. ©2004. xiii, 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French and English claim dominion, the first musket ball fired signals the start of a savage seven-year conflict destined to dismantle France's overreaching empire and pave the way for the American Revolution. In a world on the brink of astonishing change are Quentin Hale, the fearless gentleman-turned-scout, fighting to preserve his beloved family plantation, Shadowbrook; Cormac Shea, the part-Irish, part-Indian woodsman with a foot in both worlds; and the beautiful Nicole Crane, who, struggling to reconcile her love for Hale and her calling to the convent, becomes a pawn in the British quest for territory. Moving between the longhouses of the Iroquois and Shadowbrook's elegant rooms, the frontier's virgin forests and the cobbled streets of Québec, Swerling weaves a tale of passion and intrigue, faith and devotion, courage and betrayal. Peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters and historical figures, including a young George Washington, this richly textured novel vividly captures the conflict that opened the eighteenth century and ignited our nation's quest for independence. A classic in the making, Shadowbrook is a page-turning tale of ambition, war, and the transforming power of both love and duty. 20191001. Indians of North America Wars 1750-1815 Fiction. Ohio History To 1787 Fiction. United States History French and Indian War, 1754-1763 Fiction. Historical fiction. War fiction. Romance fiction.