Description
About the Author Helen Bryan is a Virginia native who grew up in Tennessee. After graduating from Barnard College, she moved to England, where she studied law and was a barrister for ten years before devoting herself to writing full-time. A member of the Inner Temple, Bryan is the author of four previous books: the World War II novel War Brides ; the historical novel The Sisterhood ; the biography Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty , which won an Award of Merit from the Colonial Dames of America; and the legal handbook Planning Applications and Appeals . The Valley is the first in a planned trilogy based on her childhood stories of ancestors who settled in Virginia and Maryland before Tennessee became a state. Bryan resides in London with her family.
Features & Highlights
- The first installment in an epic historical trilogy by Helen Bryan, the bestselling author of
- War Brides
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- The Sisterhood
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- The Valley
- is a sweeping, unforgettable tale of hardship, tenacity, love, and heartache.
- Left suddenly penniless, the Honorable Sophia Grafton, a viscount’s orphaned daughter, sails to the New World to claim the only property left to her name: a tobacco plantation in the remote wilds of colonial Virginia. Enlisting the reluctant assistance of a handsome young French spy—at gunpoint— she gathers an unlikely group of escaped slaves and indentured servants, each seeking their own safe haven in the untamed New World.
- What follows will test her courage and that of her companions as they struggle to survive a journey deep into a hostile wilderness and eventually forge a community of homesteads and deep bonds that will unite them for generations.
