Reviewer: Mary Lignor
Title: Before the Scarlet Dawn - 3rd in the Daughters of the Potomac series
Author: Rita Gerlach
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4267-1414-6
Release Date: February 2012
Genre/Sub-genre: Inspirational Historical Fiction
Year/Setting: 1775/England/Virginia, American Colonies
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sbutle
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: Mild
Violent Content Rating: Moderate
Rita's Website/Blog: http://ritagerlach.blogspot.com/
Dear Readers,
Hayward Morgan is a young gentleman who is in line to inherit his father's estate in Derbyshire, England. He has come home from the Colonies after buying and stocking a home in Virginia on the Potomac River. He has come back to England to find a woman to marry and that will return, with him, to the United States Colonies. Unfortunately, the lady he proposes to does not want to leave England and his father is insistent that he stay in England. Haywood is not interested in living in England and when he advises his father of this fact he is disowned in favor of his cousin.
Eliza Bloome, the daughter of the Vicar has always had an eye for Haywood but, besides being a playmate when they were both children, Haywood realizes that Eliza is way below his station in life and he is not interested in marrying her. Eliza overhears when Haywood's choice of a bride turns him down and offers to take her place. At first, he turns her away but then realizes that his parents are not going to allow him to move away. These circumstances throw Eliza in Hayward’s path again, and they marry and sail to America to escape the family. But, in the Colonies, as the Revolutionary War is on the horizon Haywood joins up with the local forces and is drawn into a real fight for freedom from his former homeland.
This book is filled with very true characters and their struggles for freedom from England will linger with readers long after the last page is turned. It is an extremely well written Early American History novel and readers will enjoy it.
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