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Emily Conrad is the bookish daughter of a wealthy dairy family from Vermont. Her indulgent father has educated her and bred ideas that aren’t acceptable to her more urbane mother, who thinks Emily needs to settle down with her longtime friend and town philanderer Evan Howell. The outbreak of war frees Emily from these expectations for a time, but a stranger soon arrives after the guns begin to blaze, threatening her plans more than societal conventions ever could.
Devoted to the young woman who healed her wounds, Henrietta has become part of the Conrad family, hoping that she may one day see her husband and son again. As a runaway slave, she’s been lucky enough to find this slice of peace in Vermont, but the return of Evan Howell and the man he brings with him portends great change that might see her locked back in irons, if not executed for what she’s done.
Evan isn’t as bad as his reputation has made him out to be. He knows his chum Emily will make the best doctor Vermont has ever seen, and he knows he’s not the man to marry her. With a little manipulation, he convinces his commanding officer, Lieutenant Joseph Maynard, to take leave with him and see the beauty of the north. He just doesn’t let on it’s not hillsides and streams he’s setting the man up for.
Joseph has both power and privilege as the son of a Baltimore lawyer, but neither can guarantee him the things he wants in life. His commission in the army is likely to lead to death, a sacrifice he was willing to make to end slavery in the States—that was until he saw Emily Conrad. Torn between duty and desire, Joseph struggles to stay standing for that which he once held strong convictions. War weary, they all march on to duty…
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 1, 2016
- Reading age15 - 18 years
- File size2025 KB
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- ASIN : B01G2TB9LQ
- Publisher : Broken Wizard Publishing; 2nd edition (June 1, 2016)
- Publication date : June 1, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 2025 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 486 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 162015644X
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,398,810 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #11,458 in Romance Literary Fiction
- #13,303 in Historical Literary Fiction
- #15,297 in Victorian Historical Romance (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, K.Williams embarked on a now twenty-plus-year career in writing. After a childhood of voracious reading and hours of film watching, it was a natural progression to study and produce art.
K attended Morrisville State College, majoring in the Biological Sciences, and then continued with English and Historical studies at the University at Albany, home of the New York State Writer's Institute, where she gained a Bachelor's Degree. While attending UA, K interned with the 13th Moon Feminist Literary Magazine, bridging her interests in social movements and art. Topics of K's writing include domestic violence, sexual assault, diversity, and the traumas of war.
Published novels by K include the Civil War drama Blue Honor, the World War II spy thriller OP-DEC:Operation Deceit, and the controversial Paranormal, Dark Fantasy series The Trailokya Trilogy, which received Honorable Mention in the 2015 Hollywood Book Festival. In addition to writing novels, K enjoy's the art of screenwriting and has worked on the screen spec 8 Days in Ireland, and the adaptations of her current novels. K has completed a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program for Film Studies and Screenwriting at Empire State College (SUNY), and is the 2013-2014 recipient of the Foner Fellowship in Arts and Social Justice.
K continues to write and edit on The Blue Honor Blog weekly. Whether it's cooking, learning a foreign language, history or dogs, you'll find something to enjoy and keep coming back for. Always a promoter of other artists, K uses Guest Blog Wednesdays to showcase artists from around the web and bring you interesting readings to expand your horizons. A sequel to her second novel, OP-DEC, is in the final stages, while the screen adaptation of the original no el is being considered for production by film companies.
A devoted dog mom to Séamus Fionnagáin Murchadh, K is also a visual artist, producing the ZoDuck Cartoon, painting and sketching-digitally or traditionally, as well as an accomplished Photographer. She is the producer of the sketch comedy, literary society Shagbottom Theater.
Learn more at: http://authorkwilliams.com/
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Overall, I enjoyed reading Blue Honor, K. Williams did an exquisite job of transporting our imaginations back to this era and making it a worthy work of the period. Her research into the details really shows and you realize how much it matters to Williams to get it right.
(1) Too many adjectives, adverbs, etc.
(2) Too little plot.
That being said, the author is clearly an intelligent person with a gift for certain forms of writing; it takes a lot of hard work and effort, for example, to write something this long. It also takes more than a basic high school education to string together so many sentences that convey compelling images. And her vocabulary is quite poetic.
Unfortunately, poetry is not novel writing (a good thing, too, because I can't stand most poetry). The author has not taken the time to adequately develop her talents (specifically with regards to structuring a sustainable, engaging narrative and with being disciplined enough to edit herself). The plot jumps around too much, the language is too flowery and verbose, and its clear that she has too high an opinion of herself to take the time to fix those two things (or listen to the criticism that other people have posted on Amazon). That's unfair to herself as well as to her readers.
If Blue Honor were completely restructured and the language were tightened, I think it could be brought down to 350 pages and be a compelling book. As it is, it's a good example of a writer getting carried away with her own self-evident magnificence.
The blurb for this book does not do it justice. I cannot recommend this book enough.
Worst thing is my dog chewed a corner of it and I am now unable to return it for a refund; Yet he couldn't, nor wouldn't, finish it either.
BEWARE! Read the online excerpt before throwing your money away. If you revel in boring blather, reminiscent of a Harlequin, then you possibly could fight through it. Although, in a way that statement is unfair to Harlequin.