A Desperate Search For Their Kidnapped Child Is Just The Beginning

RALEIGH, N.C. - Jan. 19, 2015 - PRLog -- Your daughter’s been taken. Those unimaginable words begin Lilyan and Nicholas Xanthakos’ desperate trek to rescue their kidnapped daughter and her Cherokee aunt from slavers in Laurel, the new post-Revolutionary War novel from award-winning author Susan F. Craft. The couple journeys two hundred miles through the Carolina wilderness, fighting outlaws, hunger, sleeplessness and despair.

They track Laurel to the port of Charleston as post-war passions reach fever pitch. There, Lilyan, a former patriot spy, is charged in the murder of a British officer. Separated from her husband, she digs deep to re-ignite the courage and faith that helped her survive the war. Determined to free his wife at any cost, Nicholas finds himself forced back into a life of violence he thought he’d left behind. After the trauma of the trial, the couple follows a rumor that Laurel may be aboard a freighter bound for Baltimore and secure passage on a departing schooner. Just two days into the voyage, a storm blows their ship aground on Diamond Shoals. As the ship founders, both are swept overboard into the roiling sea.

Will the couple’s love and their beliefs buoy them as they struggle to find each other and their missing child? Laurel explores the faith that sustains hope in times of desperate struggle.

Praise for Laurel: 5 Stars on Amazon

Craft is brilliant in her marriage of both fact and fiction, as she weaves a story that captures your attention from first page to last. Ms. Craft has a gift with her pen, creating words that are both breathtaking and beautiful. ~  Amazon.com review

In Laurel, Susan F. Craft weaves a tale of enduring familial love, sacrifice, and adventure that kept me reading late into the night. The stakes are high when a tiny child is kidnapped, but there’s no peril Lilyan and Nicholas Xanthakos won’t face to see their daughter restored. Readers of Craft’s The Chamomile and new readers alike will enjoy this exciting sequel set in the Carolinas during the first years after the Revolutionary War, a setting Craft brings to vivid life. ~ Lori Benton, Author of Burning Sky, a 2014 Triple Christy Award Winner

To Purchase Laurel,visit http://www.amazon.com/dp/194110391X/.

An admitted history nerd who loves researching more than writing, award-winning author Susan F. Craft retired from a 41-year career as a writer for public television, a communications director for a state agency, a continuing education planner for a university, and a proofreader for the SC Senate. She and her high-school sweetheart husband of 45 years have two adult children, a son-in-law, a granddaughter, and a granddog. She enjoys painting, singing, listening to music, and sitting on her front porch watching rabbits and geese eat her day lilies. In 2011, Susan’s Revolutionary War romantic suspense, The Chamomile, won the SIBA Okra Pick.