"This tale of second chances and brave choices swept me away."--Jocelyn Green, Christy Award-winning author of Shadows of the White City

It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.

Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing the lighthouse in the dangerous Chesapeake Bay, a dream he once shared with Esmée. But when the colonial government asks him to lead a secret naval expedition against the French, his future is plunged into uncertainty.

Can Esmée and Henri'sshared vision and dedication to the colonial cause heal the wounds of the past and reunite them?


"Laura Frantz has a way with story, lacing her books with hope and starlight. A Heart Adrift contains a considerable amount of both."--Kimberly Duffy, author of A Tapestry of Light and Every Word Unsaid

"A lush treatise on love lost and found at the intersection of ambition and desire. This long-established queen of epic historical fiction is at the height of her game."--Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration and The Mozart Code