Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Loyalty's Pursuit by Shannon McNear

Book: Loyalty’s Pursuit

Author: Shannon McNear

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Release Date: October 13, 2026

 

She needs a husband to survive. Right now, a wife is the last thing he wants.

August 1780. After the Battle of Camden leaves British camp follower Bess Eaton widowed, expecting a child, and stranded in enemy territory, she faces two impossible choices: a return to an England that offers her nothing…or marriage to a stranger before the army marches on without her.

Backcountry loyalist Rob MacFarlane has already buried a wife and son and has no intention of marrying again at this moment. But he can’t ignore the vulnerable widow in his path. What begins as an act of duty quickly becomes something far more complicated when he offers Bess protection—and a name.

As war rages and the British cause begins to crumble, their fragile alliance is tested at every turn. Loyalties fracture. Faith is questioned. And the lines between enemy and neighbor blur. To survive, Rob must decide what allegiance truly costs—and Bess must choose whether she can trust not only the man she married…but the God she’s never fully known.

 

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Christian Historical Romance is a genre that I enjoy reading. Loyalty's Pursuit by Shannon McNear is Book 1 in the For Love and Loyalty Series. 

WOW, I can honestly say this book has a GREAT mix of Historical and Christian aspects, which really intrigued me to keep reading. The setting is 1780 in South Carolina, during Revolutionary War time. The main characters in this book are Bess Eaton and Rob MacFarlane. Bess is recently widowed and also pregnant. Bess is from England and is in America. She has decisions to make as to what would be best for her and her unborn baby, she contemplates returning to England. Bess meets Rob MacFarlane and Rob learns of her predicament. Rob lost his wife and son and has no intentions of ever getting married again. Rob and Bess get to know one another and Rob offers to marry Bess, as a marriage of convenience. Rob is a Loyalist and had to look within his heart before he asked Bess, he really wanted to protect Bess. I really LOVE how the author portrayed the characters in the book and how they also leaned on God to help them through the challenges they were facing. I also truly enjoyed the Historical info and how the descriptions of the War and times, made me feel as ifI was there. I was so intrigued by the storyline that I could not stop reading until I was finished. The book is one of Marriage of Convenience. Faith, Trust and Romance. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Christian Historical Romance. GREAT BOOK!

 

Transplanted to the far north after more than two decades in the Deep South, Shannon McNear loves losing herself in local history. She’s the author of twenty-one novels and novellas, not all of them in print, but her favorite roles are retired military wife, pastor’s wife, mom-of-many, mother-in-law, and grammie. When not cooking, researching, or leaking story from her fingertips, she enjoys being outdoors, hanging out with her grandbabies and basking in the beauty of the northern prairies.

 

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I’m so honored to be part of yet another Celebrate Lit tour! This story especially is near and dear to my heart, because it was my very first long historical after writing fantasy for decades, the book I still had in process when I submitted the proposal for my first novella, Defending Truth, and the one which gave me the courage to try that story (and genre) to begin with.

The first draft of this story took five years to complete, in between other projects and real life. It was a hard sell to start with, I knew, being set within the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution but from the British and Loyalist viewpoint. Still, it eventually netted me both of my agents (Defending Truth’s RITA® nomination didn’t hurt there, either) while garnering interest from various editors—but didn’t actually sell until last summer. That means this story languished for more than 10 years—and then the Lord Himself practically dropped this contract in my lap.

The first story of how the concept came to me can be found here:

https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2014/07/dispelling-colonial-myths-reenactor.html

It was on my heart from the beginning to portray the romance, such as it is, in a rather unconventional way—something closer to what I imagine real life must have been for such a situation. And I deliberately steered away from the usual flowery declarations of love between my main couple, while hoping to present them in such a way that the reader has no doubt by the end of the story that they do absolutely care for each other. My dear editor with Wild Heart Books helped me shape and refine the characters and story from what might have been a more straightforward historical fiction read into more of what a historical romance reader might expect. I hope those expectations are now met, but also that my readers also come away with a fresh appreciation for how our country came to be.

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To celebrate her tour, Shannon is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://gleam.io/AJy7n/loyaltys-pursuit-celebration-tour-giveaway

Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Loyalty's Pursuit by Shannon McNear

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