By Sword and Fan is now officially out and I'm just as thrilled as I was at the worldwide release of the previous eight. Maybe even a little more, because this one took longer to write and revise. Like the others, it's set in mid-eighteenth century England.
Here's a brief excerpt:
“Gone!” Archbold’s low, furious
voice left Margaret in no doubt that he would have cursed if he had been alone
or only with a man. She rode forward to join him.Two ponies with sidesaddles
were loosely tethered in a little clear space between the trees and the foot of
the rise. Ackerley’s hack was missing.
Campbell said, “I’ll be having a
look at the road.”
The children had been abducted.
No one needed to say it aloud.
The Scots groom was back in a
trice. “No sign of them. Horses stood a whiles. Sh—droppin’s. A few spilt
aits.”
And here's an excerpt from The Historical Fiction Company's review:
"[T]hat the characters are older and have experienced life more than many characters in romance novels makes them much more realistic...Buckley does a fantastic job developing characters and using a character-driven plot to engage readers and evoke emotions within the reader...“By Sword and Fan” by Kathleen Buckley receives four stars from The Historical Fiction Company." The Historical Fiction Company https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/post/a-delightful-historical-romance-an-editorial-review-of-by-sword-and-fan
