Lori Benton

Dear Readers,

I love being able to share new authors with you, especially one that is writing a little different genre.  Right now the Revolutionary War is very hot in fiction and Burning Sky by Lori Benton is set just after the war is over.  The main focus of that book is not the war, but what was happening in some of the areas of the country.

14 years ago Willa was kidnapped away from her family and adopted into the Mohawk family.  She became part of their family and survived very well.  But she never forgot her ‘real’ family and when she is able she heads home to find out what happened to her parents. 

When she arrives at the edge of her family's land she finds a wounded man and takes him home to what turns out to be an empty house.  There are many things that happen and Willa ends up being a woman caught in two different worlds.  She will have to decide which world she wishes to live in and that is not the easiest decision to make. 

I don’t want to say to much more about the story line because this book was such an interesting read.   It is part of USA’s history that they don’t talk about in history books: what went on in the countryside during and after the war.  People that were seen as loyal to the crown were chased from their homes and had their lands stolen from them.  Native Americans were feared and anyone who defended them were often looked at as betraying their fellow countrymen and women. 

I am not sure what Lori will be writing about next, but I am interested to see what she does with her sophomore book.

Happy Reading