My Favorite Women Authors

I’m surprised I haven’t covered this already but I looked through my old blog posts to confirm it.

So I’m rectifying this now.

It’s Women’s History Month and I want to highlight some of my favorite women authors. Now, of course, I do love Jane Austen but I think I want to focus on more modern authors. So Jane is on my list, just not for this blog.

Here we go!

“Where the Lost Wander” by Amy Harmon

Title: Where the Lost Wander
Author: Amy Harmon
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Year: 2020
Genre(s): historical fiction, romance
Part of a Series: No
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Why I read it: Once Upon a Book Club selection

Summary: Recently widowed, Naomi decides to head west on the Oregon Trail with her family and some friends. At the starting point, she meets John Lowry, who works with his father raising and selling mules to the pioneers getting ready to cross the American frontier. He and Naomi feel pulled toward each other and he decides to join their wagon party to start a new life out west as well. But the Oregon Trail is not kind to the pioneers who traverse it and John Lowry must also contend with the fact that he was born to a white father and a Pawnee mother, a man who has a foot in both worlds but doesn’t feel at home in either. Will he and Naomi survive the trials and challenges of the Oregon Trail? And if so, will they be able to find a life together? Or will life on the Oregon Trail prove too much?

“What the Wind Knows” by Amy Harmon

Title: “What the Wind Knows”
Author: Amy Harmon
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Year: 2019
Genre(s): historical romance, some fantastical elements
Part of a Series: No
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Why I read it: Recommended by Amazon and I enjoyed Harmon’s Sand and Ash

Summary: Following the death of her beloved grandfather, best-selling author Anne Gallagher travels to Ireland to honor his final wish – for his ashes to be spread on one particular lough near where he grew up in Ireland. While out on the lough, she is caught in a strange mist and when she is rescued, she finds herself no longer in 2001 but in 1921. This Ireland is a dangerous place as it is a county on the brink of war, trying to gain independence from the British.

Anne is taken in by Dr. Thomas Smith, who has mistaken her for her great-grandmother. She is surprised to find her grandfather as a young boy and struggles to adjust to the 1920s as she is forced to pretend she is someone else. Will she find a way back to her time? Or is she destined to become a part of the history she has fervently studied?

"From Sand and Ash" by Amy Harmon

Title: From Sand and Ash
Author: Amy Harmon
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Year:  2016
Genre(s):  contemporary, romance, coming-of-age
Part of a Series: No
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