Twin Willows

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Summary: This book was definately hard to put down
Review: I loved this book. You can't help but love the characters. The story was very interesting and definately keeps your interest.

Rating:
Summary: This book was definately hard to put down
Review: I loved this book. You can't help but love the characters. The story was very interesting and definately keeps your interest. I am looking foward to Kay Cornelius's next book.

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Summary: says "Welcome to this visit to the past."
Review: I welcome this opportunity to say hello and tell you a little about myself and TWIN WILLOWS.

To me, history is a living record of people who were just like us, rather than dry dates and dull battles, so I naturally gravitated to historical fiction when I began writing. In a series of four books for Barbour Publishing Company's "Heartsong Presents" line, I took the McKay family, which I introduced in my first book (LOVE'S GENTLE JOURNEY, Zondervan, 1985; Guideposts Classics. 1994) from the Scots migration of 1740 to the settlement of Kentucky in 1781. In my research for the last book of the series ( SIGN OF THE SPIRIT), I became interested in the complex interactions of white settlers with the Native Americans they eventually displaced. Since both my husband and I have ancestors who were early settlers of West Virginia and Kentucky, I used some actual events in which they were involved as the setting for this story of twins with identical heritage, but reared apart in different cultures. And of course, they both find romance despite the danger of their times.

A Tennessee native who now calls Huntsville, Alabama, home, I enjoy writing, reading, researching and traveling.

Let me know your thoughts about TWIN WILLOWS and my other books-- and happy reading!

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Summary: Lively read, engaging characters, solid history.
Review: Kay Cornelius provides a little of everything in Twin Willows--It's a lively read, with engaging characters set against a well-researched background. I enjoyed it immensely!

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Summary: Excellent reading, difficult to put down, totally enjoyable
Review: The opening chapter was enough to tell me I was in for a wonderful adventure, and a wonderful adventure it was. From the beginning to the very end Kay's style of writing brings the characters and events to life. I look forward to reading more of her books.

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Summary: Excellent reading, difficult to put down, totally enjoyable
Review: The opening chapter was enough to tell me I was in for a wonderful adventure, and a wonderful adventure it was. From the beginning to the very end Kay's style of writing brings the characters and events to life. I look forward to reading more of her books.

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Summary: Heart warming and breathtaking at one and the same time!
Review: This is a wonderful story, unique in its plotting with exciting twists. The romance is heartwarming, true romance with none of the gratuitous sex so prevalant in this day and time. I would love to see more of this author. Very literary in her style, she keeps you interested to the last minute leaving you wanting more.

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Summary: Hot sex, fascinating history!
Review: Twin Willows: This is a deliciously sensual book, with a pair of gutsy, charming heroines. I particularly enjoyed the way the writer evoked the period, bringing it to life while she kept the action moving right along. A great read; I highly recommend it. Elaine McCarthy

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Summary: WONDERFUL PERIOD ROMANCES
Review: We get a wonderfully clear picture of the country of Pennsylvania and O-Hio territory.
Silverwillow was a beautiful Delaware raised by Bear's Daughter.
I couldn't decide if Bear's Daughter was guilty of love or subject to a superstition of twins. But after we meet White Eagel we learn of Shawnee triplets. Of course they were male.

Anna Willow McKnight is approaching [possibly 18 years] graduation from Miss Martin's School where she has met and fallen in love with Stuart Martin, a sometimes teacher and tutor who is going to Princeton. Miss Martin, Stuart's aunt, was quite a character and prejudist against "breeds".

In the meantime "Willow", being raised in Chief Black Snake's tribe by Bear's Daughter, kin to Black Snake is trying very hard not to be claimed by Otter as his wife. The Shawnee warrior, Otter is determined to press his suit and so Bear's Daughter gains permission to take Willow away to look for her Delaware family.

Anna Willow has left Miss Martin's school and dropped in on her father's sisters' sons only to find deceit and no welcome. She determines to find her father in Ken-tuck-e. What a very neat descriptive trip. But what a shock when she finds that Ian McKnight has taken a wife, Rebecca.

Once again we hear of the treacherous renegade, Simon Girty [I first heard of him from Zane Grey's stories]and the Red Coats who were stirring up the Indians.

White Eagle has saved Willow when Bear's Daughter dies and he takes her for his wife. In the meantime, Otter has joined in on the raid at Bryan's Station and abducted Ann Willow, thinking that she is "Willow". Whoops! Ian captures Willow thinking he is saving Anna Willow and takes her back to Rebecca. And so the story goes.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - you will definitely enjoy the way the story unfolds and the connections with the Indians.