The Bride of the Wilderness: A Novel
About this audiobook
The acclaimed author of such suspense classics as The Tears of Autumn and The Miernik Dossier brings us a unique period romance, set in early eighteenth-century Europe and New England featuring the ancestors of his recurring master-spy Paul Christopher.
Young, high-spirited Fanny has been fortunate in her civilized upbringing, but the London she has grown up in is riddled with danger and brutality. When a sinister stranger traps her family into debt in order to advance on Fanny, she is forced to take refuge in France, where she meets a young French soldier named Philippe de Saint-Christophe. Their paths will cross again in the New World, where the war between the English and the French is fought with the help of savage Indians on both sides. Together, Fanny and Philippe carve out a fierce, adventurous life in the vigorous, untamed wilderness.
About the author
Charles McCarry is the author of numerous acclaimed suspense thrillers. He established an international reputation as a novelist with the publication in 1974 of the worldwide bestseller The Tears of Autumn. During the Cold War, he was an intelligence officer operating under deep cover in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Pam Ward found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress’ Talking Books program.
