For Love or Liberty

In the third and final book of Taylor’s MacGregor Legacy series, MacGregor granddaughter Charlotte Morgan is coping with the death of her twin sister Emma. With the country in the throes of the War of 1812, Emma’s husband, David, a naval officer, has been transferred to Lake Erie. Charlotte promises to care for her sister’s two young children and feels obligated to follow her widowed brother-in-law to the Great Lakes region. Complicating matters, David is under the command of his brother Conrad, a onetime suitor of Charlotte’s who jilted her six years earlier. As David drowns his grief in alcohol, Conrad and Charlotte forge a truce for the sake of the children. Taylor channels Jane Austen as Conrad’s and Charlotte’s bickering fuels their attraction to each other, in a manner reminiscent of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Charlotte struggles with trusting the man who left her for the sea, and Conrad fights to show his affection without further alienating the woman he loves. Agent: Terry Burns, Hartline Literary Agency. (Nov.)