Reviewer: Amy Lignor
Title: Rising Wind
Author: Cindy Holby
Publisher: Leisure Books
ISBN: 0-8439-5865-0
Release Date: August 2007
Genre/Sub-genre: Historical Romance
Year/Setting: Colonial Williamsburg, Early 1700s
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: Mild
Violent Content Rating: Intense (but in a purely ‘historical’ way)
Cindy's Website:
www.cindyholby.com
Leaving behind the Highlands for the New World, Connor Duncan learns quickly that only the lucky and smart survive. With the help of a friend, he becomes a scout and an expert marksman; a frontiersman to the extreme. So it’s no surprise that he is more than uncomfortable sitting in the drawing rooms of Williamsburg, keeping company with a sheltered flower – the Governor’s niece. She, referred to as the Virgin Widow, because all of her fiancés have met with death before the vows were taken, is anything but a sheltered flower. After insisting to her brother that she will ride with the Army through the wilderness to Ft. Savannah, she begins a fantastic journey by Connor’s side. They will have to brave capture and torture in the wild frontier – but will they survive long enough to create a the next Duncan dynasty in a new nation?
For anyone, like me, who is a historical fiction nut, this book offers it all. From the early pages where Duncan’s father and mother meet untimely deaths, to his journey to the New World on a slave ship, this book maintains its historical integrity. Through the author’s representations of locations, events, and people – such as the Boston Tea Party, Daniel Boone and the Shawnee Indians – to the perfect accent that flows from the character’s mouths – the book is perfect. The Virgin Widow, Caroline Murray, is a great character, because although she is part of the elite, she is as trapped as Connor – serving her family’s goals and not her own. She’s funny, clumsy, and energetic, and, unlike a lot of romance novels, you actually believe that when they finally say they love each other – they really, really mean it.
I, for one, have to go back and get the first two in this deliciously adventurous series.
Amy
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