![]() ![]() Despite their different backgrounds, Rose, Nicole, and Elisabeth all believe that marriage to a stranger is their best, perhaps only, chance of happiness. Each prospective bride has her reason for leavingpoverty, family rejection, a broken engagement. Their duty is to marry and bring forth a new generation of loyal citizens. They are known as the filles du roi, or Kings Daughtersyoung women who leave prosperous France for an uncertain future across the Atlantic. 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 XIVs call and journey to the Canadian colony. In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. ![]() ∺n engaging, engrossing debut.Greer Macallister, USA Today bestselling author of The Magicians Lie Bound for a new continent, and a new beginning. ![]()
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