~Jody Hedlund, Christy Award-winning author
With arranged marriages, forced immigration, and struggles against starvation, the elements, and warring natives, the story is riveting. (Jan." The Mark of the King grabbed me from the first scene and wouldn't let me go! The setting is vibrant, unique, and full of fascinating true details about the early French settlement in New Orleans. Readers can only hope for more from this talented, spiritually insightful author. Painful events and difficult people force them to confront the substance of their Christian faith: will they answer injustice and betrayal with grace and forgiveness or bitterness and revenge? Will Julianne’s mark remind her of the unjust king of France or of the king of kings? Green’s acute understanding of grief is especially illustrated in the devastating scene of a miscarriage. Julianne and Marc-Paul face a perilous and winding journey to wholeness. The colorful setting of south Louisiana plays a large role in the story and is a potent catalyst for much of the action. Marc-Paul Girard befriends and protects Julianne, and soon falls in love with her. When she confronts natural and human dangers, Capt. In the backwater settlement of New Orleans, she attempts to make a life while searching for her brother, who had earlier been stationed there as a soldier.
She travels to the French colony of Louisiana on a ship full of convicts. Young midwife Julianne Chevalier is unjustly condemned and branded a criminal in 1719 Paris. The 18th-century Old and New Worlds burst off the pages in the latest historical fiction treasure from Green (the Heroines Behind the Lines series).
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