Bride of the Wilderness — Charles McCarry

Fanny Harding, a half-French, half-English beauty, comes to the Connecticut wilderness at the dawn of the eighteenth century. Pursued by enemies of her family, kidnapped by Indians, and threatened by dark dangers lurking in the vast forests of the New World, she embarks on an epic journey of suffering and courage through the raw primitive land. But Fanny's voyage ends in a love story of great tenderness as she discovers her destiny in Philippe de Saint-Christophe, a young French soldier whose courage and daring and passion for Fanny must compete with his loyalty to his family and his allegiance to France. In this tale of passion, death, betrayal, and the triumph of love, Charles McCarry has written a rare novel that lives on in the imagination long after the reading is finished.