Grand Rapids, Michigan: Revell/Baker Publishing Group, 2020.

Her eleven books have won her a Christy Award and been deemed best-sellers by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Quiet and courageous, Clay Tygart is not your typical 18th-ce. Born and bred on the Western Virginia frontier along with her five brothers, she is a force to be reckoned with. The author, Laura Fantz was born in Ashland, Kentucky, and raised in three other Kentucky towns in a family with ancestral ties to Berea where she was baptized at the age of 12. Unflinching and plainspoken, Tessa Swan is not your typical 18th-century woman. Peopled with characters as resilient and compelling as the terrain they inhabit, An Uncommon Woman is an engaging story that had me up late turning pages.” - Lori Benton. Traverse perilous forest trails, shelter with raw relief in the rough but welcoming environs of a fort, experience the tension of an isolated homestead that might stand peaceful today but lie in smoking ruins tomorrow. Sensory-rich descriptions bring the landscape to life. 'In An Uncommon Woman, author Laura Frantz transports readers to a setting she has mastered, the eighteenth-century mountain frontier. The tension tightens when Tessa is captured by the tribe that raised Clay and Keturah. They both were raised as captives by Lenape Indians. Her life changes when Clay Tygart returns to command a nearby fort with Tessa’s childhood friend, Keturah. Set in the Western Virginia Mountains in 1770, this historical novel’s protagonist is Tessa Swan who was born and raised in these mountains alongside five brothers toughened by their harsh environment.

An uncommon woman by laura frantz