Around the River’s Bend

by Gilbert Morris Book 5 in the Spirit of Appalachia series.

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After her father’s sudden death leaves her without money, Sabrina Fairfax discovers that he owned land in the American colonies. With few alternatives in England, she decides to claim it and secures the company of Sion Kenyon, an unemployed miner whom she helps release from jail in exchange for his service on the journey.

The move to the frontier replaces the security Sabrina once knew with hard work, uncertain ownership and dependence on neighbours. Her relationship with Sion becomes more complicated as he is drawn towards another woman, while the settlement itself faces the pressures of migration and conflict beyond the Appalachians. The novel combines romance with the practical instability of establishing a new life on the Tennessee frontier.