Love in the Time of War

 Blue Heron Book Works is thrilled to have Laura Libricz join us with her spell-binding trilogy of love in the time of war--my absolutely favorite kind of tale.   Here's the story:  In 17th-century Germany on the brink of the Thirty Years War, 24-year-old Katarina is traded to the patrician Sebald Tucher by her fiancé Willi Prutt in order to pay his debts. Forced to move into the Tucher country estate, Katarina is met by a crazed archer, Hans-Wolfgang, carrying a baby under his cloak. He tells her a fabulous story of how his beloved was executed by a Jesuit priest for witchcraft right after the birth and makes Katarina swear on her life to protect the child.

I mean, right?

Here's more about the wonderful writer, Laura Libricz:

Laura Libricz is a writer, a mother, a guitar factory worker.  And she loves to write.  Born and raised in Pennsylvania, she moved to Upstate New York when she was 22.  After working a few years building Steinberger guitars, she received a scholarship to go to college.  She tried to "do the right thing" and study something useful, but spent all her time reading German literature.  Most of her writing from that time landed in the fire.

She earned a BA in German at The College of New Paltz, NY in 1991 and moved to GErmany, where she resides today.  Her first novel, The Master and the Maid, the first book fo the Heaven's Ponds Trilogy, is scheduled to be released in 2015.  The second and third books in the series are scheduled to be released in 2016.