The Bookmark

<p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)><em>The legendary Marquis de Lafayette</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)><em>A forgotten Moravian woman who became his nurse</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)><em>And a bookmark with a secret...</em></strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> </em></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>1777.</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> After being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine the Marquis de Lafayette is taken to the isolated religious community of Bethlehem Pennsylvania where he is cared for by a Moravian Single Sister named Liesl Boeckel </span>who has little patience with the arrogant Frenchman and his unwelcome curiosity about her life.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>2005.</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> When Abbey Prescott inherits her grandmother's house in Bethlehem she discovers an eighteenth-century bookmark which may reveal a romance between Liesl and Lafayette and she becomes determined to solve the mystery. However her quest is complicated by the aftershocks of a failed love affair and a possible romantic entanglement of her own. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>The Bookmark</em><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> is an immersive romantic mystery that illuminates a little-known piece of American history through the lives of two women separated by the centuries but alike in their determination to confront the past and find a way forward.</span></p>