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Also by Lori Benton:

Shiloh, October 2021
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Mountain Laurel, September 2020
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The King's Mercy, June 2019
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Many Sparrows, September 2017
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A Flight of Arrows, April 2016
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The Wood's Edge, April 2015
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THE KING'S MERCY
By: Lori Benton

Waterbrook
June 2019
On Sale: June 4, 2019
Featuring: lex MacKinnon; Joanna Carey
400 pages
ISBN: 1601429967
EAN: 9781601429964
Kindle: B07H73C4J9
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Romance Historical | Inspirational Historical

For readers of Sara Donati and Diana Gabaldon, this epic historical romance tells of fateful love between an indentured Scotsman and a daughter of the 18th century colonial south.

When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy—exile to the Colony of North Carolina—he's indentured to Englishman Edmund Carey as a blacksmith. Against his will Alex is drawn into the struggles of Carey's slaves—and those of his stepdaughter, Joanna Carey. A mistress with a servant's heart, Joanna is expected to wed her father's overseer, Phineas Reeves, but finds herself drawn instead to the new blacksmith. As their unlikely relationship deepens, successive tragedies strike the Careys. When blame falls unfairly upon Alex he flees to the distant mountains where he encounters Reverend Pauling, itinerate preacher and friend of the Careys, now a prisoner of the Cherokees.

Haunted by his abandoning of Joanna, Alex tries to settle into life with the Cherokees, until circumstances thwart yet another attempt to forge his freedom and he's faced with the choice that's long hounded him: continue down his rebellious path or embrace the faith of a man like Pauling, whose freedom in Christ no man can steal. But the price of such mercy is total surrender, and perhaps Alex's very life.