Welcome to the Blog Tour & Giveaway for
With This
Pledge by Tamera Alexander, the first
full novel of the Carnton series, hosted by JustRead Publicity
Tours!
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MY REVIEW
With This Pledge is Tamera Alexander's awesome first full-length novel in her Carnton series. Last year she set the stage with her captivating novella, Christmas at Carnton.
This story drops you right into a major battle of the Civil War fought on and near the grounds of the Carnton plantation just outside Franklin, Tennessee. Thanks to her fantastic storytelling skills, Tamera Alexander makes you see, feel, and hear the horrors and tragedy of the Battle of Franklin and its aftermath, without unnecessary graphic details. Her characters are full of passion, conflict, loss, fear, hatred, and love. And they battle with those feelings as they go about the necessary activities of trying to put their damaged bodies and lives back together and face an unknown future. The author lets you experience those struggles through the eyes of a wide array of characters -- from battle-weary soldiers to concerned property owners, ministering nuns, apprehensive slaves, small children, and a compassionate governess. And as always, you can count on authenticity in the historical setting of a Tamera Alexander novel.
I highly recommend With This Pledge to anyone interested in extremely well-written historical romance. Thanks to JustRead Publicity Tours for providing a copy of this book. I am happy to share my own thoughts in this review.
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MY REVIEW
With This Pledge is Tamera Alexander's awesome first full-length novel in her Carnton series. Last year she set the stage with her captivating novella, Christmas at Carnton.
This story drops you right into a major battle of the Civil War fought on and near the grounds of the Carnton plantation just outside Franklin, Tennessee. Thanks to her fantastic storytelling skills, Tamera Alexander makes you see, feel, and hear the horrors and tragedy of the Battle of Franklin and its aftermath, without unnecessary graphic details. Her characters are full of passion, conflict, loss, fear, hatred, and love. And they battle with those feelings as they go about the necessary activities of trying to put their damaged bodies and lives back together and face an unknown future. The author lets you experience those struggles through the eyes of a wide array of characters -- from battle-weary soldiers to concerned property owners, ministering nuns, apprehensive slaves, small children, and a compassionate governess. And as always, you can count on authenticity in the historical setting of a Tamera Alexander novel.
I highly recommend With This Pledge to anyone interested in extremely well-written historical romance. Thanks to JustRead Publicity Tours for providing a copy of this book. I am happy to share my own thoughts in this review.
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Title: With This Pledge
Series: Carnton, Book 1
Author: Tamera Alexander
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Genre: Historical Romance
History takes on vivid life in the stunning first
full-length installment of USA TODAY bestselling Tamera
Alexander’s new series, The Carnton Novels.
What can a woman—a mere governess—do against the
scourge of slavery?
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Clouston’s quietly held principles oppose
those of the Southern Cause—but when forty thousand soldiers converge on the
fields of Franklin, Tennessee, the war demands an answer. The Carnton home
where she is governess is converted into a Confederate field hospital, and
Lizzie is called upon to assist the military doctor with surgeries that
determine life or death. Faced with the unimaginable, she must summon
fortitude, even as she fears for the life of Towny, her fiancé and lifelong
friend.
As a young soldier lies dying in Lizzie’s arms, she vows to
relay his final words to his mother, but knows little more than the boy’s first
name. That same night, decorated Mississippi sharpshooter Captain Roland Ward
Jones extracts a different promise from Lizzie: that she intervene should the
surgeon decide to amputate his leg.
Lizzie is nothing if not a woman of her word, earning the
soldiers’ respect as she tends to the wounded within Carnton’s walls. None is
more admiring than Captain Jones, who doesn’t realize she is pledged to
another. But as Lizzie’s heart softens toward the Confederate captain, she
discovers that his moral ground is at odds with her own. Now torn between love,
principles, and promises made, she struggles to be true to her heart while
standing for what she knows is right—no matter the cost.
From the pages of history and the personal accounts of those
who endured the Battle of Franklin, Tamera Alexander weaves the real-life love
letters between Captain Roland Ward Jones and Miss Elizabeth Clouston into a
story of unlikely romance first kindled amid the shadows of war.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Tamera Alexander is a USA Today
bestselling novelist whose works have been awarded and nominated for numerous
industry-leading honors, including the Christy Award (two-time winner, seven-time
finalist), the RITA Award (two-time winner, four-time finalist), the Carol
Award, the Maggie Award, the Booksellers Best Award, and Library Journal's top
distinction, among others. After seventeen years in Colorado, Tamera and her
husband now reside in Nashville, Tennessee, where they live a short distance
from Belmont Mansion and Belle Meade Plantation, the setting of Tamera’s two
USA Today bestselling Southern series.
TOUR
GIVEAWAY
(1) winner will win a release copy of With This
Pledge + $10 Amazon Gift Card
Enter via the Rafflecopter giveaway below.
Giveaway will begin at midnight January 14, 2019 and last through
11:59 pm January 28, 2019. US only for a print copy of the book. International
winners will receive an ebook. Gift card prize will be issued as an e-gift
card. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and
given 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Giveaway is subject
to the policies found here.
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