Dark Shadows (The Mercy Carver Series Book 1)

Dark Shadows (The Mercy Carver Series Book 1)

<h2>A fast-paced, action-packed historical romance set during the last days of the Old South</h2> <br />________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />When unimaginable calamities strike, Mercy Carver, a poor London woman, wonders what she has done to deserve such immeasurable suffering. It is only when she faces imminent death in the snow and ice-encrusted Virginia wilderness that she finally understands the power of destiny. <br /> <br />Mercy is passionate. She loves and hates in equal measure. Can love and hatred give her the strength she needs now to reach a Northern state, and free a runaway slave wanted for murders, she committed? <br /> <br />America and her people are strangled in an uncompromising political stalemate. Southern states have seceded from the Union, and a civil war is imminent. <br /> <br />Mercy Carver: her journey is just beginning. <br />________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br /><h2>REVIEWS</h2> <br /><i>Kirkus Review. </i> <br />"A fast-paced, action-packed historical romance set during the last days of the Old South." <br /> <br />“A female Dickens” (<i>Amazon Reviewer</i>) <br />________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br /><h2>Also by Jana Petken</h2> <br /> <br /><b>The Guardian of Secrets <br /> <br />The Mercy Carver Series: <br />Dark Shadows - Book 1 <br />Blood Moon - Book 2 <br />Coming soon - The Errant Flock <br /></b>