Valiant Bride — Jane Peart

Happiness and fulfillment, heartbreak and tragedy, faith and triumph--the unfolding panorama of "The Brides of Montclair."

MONTCLAIR--The magnificent ancestral home of the Montrose family, built on an original King's Grant along the James River. By the time this saga begins, a gentleman planter class is evolving in America--a generation removed from the dread sounds of war drums echoing through the vast forests.

THE BRIDES--With distinctive personalities, backgrounds, hopes, and dreams, each bride brought to Montclair by the Montrose man she marries, is bonded by love for the strong, independent men of this family and faith in God and the future of the young country. NORAMARY MARSH, the first Bride, is the ward of a prosperous Williamsburg couple who engineer a cunning scheme to prevent social embarrassment when their daughter elopes on the eve of her wedding to DUNCAN MONTROSE. Unwittingly, Noramary becomes the first to assume the role of Mistress of Montclair and to learn that enduring love can develop and flourish despite all obstacles.