Writing...Just because!

We are keeping on our roll these days of historical fiction titles releasing with Carolyn J. Nicholson's new historical novel, Isabel: The Quest for Freedom , coming out on September 11.  The fictional main character in Carolyn's latest book that has resulted from years of research into her own ancestry is Isabel Morton, the daughter of a prominent Nova Scotia family that wants the best for their twenty-four-year-old daughter—a suitable marriage—but Isabel will have none of it. She wants to be free, even if it means she must live as an “old maid” in a garret. Then she meets William Wishart, who offers her the freedom to follow her own stars if she marries him. But how does a woman follow her own stars in a culture where women are the property of their fathers, or if married, their husbands, and are to be meek, pious, and subservient? With no access to representative government, no right to vote, how can women be free? Isabel tries to find a way through many twists and turns of...