The Cumberland Bride

By Shannon McNear

Today on First-line Friday’s, I am sharing the first line to Book 5 in the Daughters of the Mayflower series, The Cumberland Bride. I have loved each book so far and I can’t wait to dig into this one soon.

Tennessee, Spring 1794                       Bean’s Station

“My father used to tell a story,” Kate murmured as she wrote, quill scratching against the page, “of how he and his fellow Hessians sailed down Hudson with the British, preparing to attack Washington and his forces. When they came under fire, he and the other men of good, devout German stock, broke out singing hymns, believing God would preserve them. Colonel Rawdon commenced to mocking them for such simple faith. And that was the beginning of the end of my father’s faith in the British.”

Our main character’s father served for the enemy!  Sounds like an interesting story ahead.

Now it’s your turn! Share with us a first-line!

Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.com/Cumberland-Bride-Daughters-Mayflower-book/dp/1683226917

Now grab the book nearest to you or the one you’re reading and comment with the first line. Then head to Hoarding Books for more participants in First Line Friday’s.

About the Book:

In 1794, when Kate Gruener’s father is ready to move the family farther west into the wilderness to farm untouched land, Kate is eager to live out her own story of adventure like he did during the War for Independence and to see untamed lands. And she sets her sights on learning more about their scout, Thomas Bledsoe. Thomas’s job is to get settlers safely across the Kentucky Wilderness Road to their destination while keeping an ear open for news of Shawnee unrest. But naïve Kate’s inquisitive nature could put them both in the middle of a rising tide of conflict. Is there more to Thomas’s story than he is willing to tell? Is there an untapped courage in Kate that can thwart a coming disaster?

About the Author:

Shannon McNear loves losing herself in local history. A Midwestern farm girl who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, for more than two decades before being transplanted to North Dakota, she’s a military wife, mother of 8, and a member of ACFW and RWA. When not sewing, researching, or leaking story from her fingertips, she enjoys being outdoors, basking in the beauty of the northern prairies.