{"title":"Laura Frantz","description":"Laura Frantz is a two-time Christy Award winner and the ECPA bestselling author of more than fifteen novels, including The Indigo Heiress, The Seamstress of Acadie,  The Rose and the Thistle,  The Frontiersman's Daughter, Courting Morrow Little,  The Lacemaker,  and A Heart Adrift. She is the proud mom of an American soldier and a career firefighter. Though she will always call Kentucky home, Laura lives with her husband in Washington State. Learn more at LauraFrantz.net.","products":[{"product_id":"the-indigo-heiress-paperback","title":"The Indigo Heiress - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. Indigo cultivation is her foremost concern, though its export tethers her family to the powerful Buchanan clan of Glasgow, Scotland. 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