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Author:

Runyan, Aimie K., author.

Title:

Promised to the crown / by Aimie K. Runyan.

Publisher:

Thorndike PressA part of Gale, Cengage Learning,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

565 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Filles du roi--Fiction.
Women immigrants--New France--Fiction.
Marriage--Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Large type books.
Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

""In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. Runyan masterfully blends fact and fiction to explore the founding of New France through the experiences of three young women who, in 1667, answer Louis XIV s call and journey to the Canadian colony. "They are known as the "filles du roi," or King's Daughters, young women who leave prosperous France for an uncertain future across the Atlantic. Their duty is to marry and bring forth a new generation of loyal citizens. Each prospective bride has her reason for leaving poverty, family rejection, a broken engagement. Despite their different backgrounds, Rose, Nicole, and Elisabeth all believe that marriage to a stranger is their best, perhaps only, chance of happiness. Once in Quebec, Elisabeth quickly accepts baker Gilbert Beaumont, who wants a business partner as well as a wife. Nicole, a farmer's daughter from Rouen, marries a charming officer who promises comfort and security. Scarred by her traumatic past, Rose decides to take holy vows rather than marry. Yet no matter how carefully she chooses, each will be tested by hardship and heartbreaking loss and sustained by the strength found in their uncommon friendship, and the precarious freedom offered by their new home."-- Provided by publisher (synopsis from Kensington Books edition)

Series:

Daughters of New France ; #1

ISBN:

141049067X (hardcover)
9781410490674 (large print : hardcover)

LCCN:

2016013369

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

RUPC135 -- Manson Public Library (Manson)

ZXPC675 -- Fisher-Whiting Memorial Library (Mapleton)

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)