
Lindsey Fera
Award-winning Historical Fiction Author
About the Author
LINDSEY S. FERA is a born and bred New Englander, hailing from the North Shore of Boston. As a member of the Topsfield Historical Society and the Historical Novel Society, she forged her love for writing with her intrigue for colonial America by writing her debut novel, Muskets & Minuets, a planned trilogy. When she’s not attending historical reenactments or spouting off facts about Boston, she’s nursing patients back to health. Muskets & Masquerades is her sophomore novel.

Books

Praise for Muskets & Masquerades
"In the return of Annalisa Howlett, author Lindsey Fera has crafted another remarkable story driven by character but based in history. A Revolutionary War-era narrative, Muskets and Masquerades is an adventurous whirlwind that sends readers through the turmoil of war and the conflicts of the heart." – Colin Mustful, author, historian, and founder of History Through Fiction
Muskets & Masquerades
Book 2 of the Muskets Trilogy
Sometimes a masks reveals more than a face
Jack and Annalisa are married only five months when, enroute to France, a shipwreck separates them. On different shores, each believes the other dead. But when Annalisa learns Jack is alive, she returns to America and discovers much has changed. After a betrayal, she flees town as her alter ego, Benjamin Cavendish, and joins the Continental Army,
Unbeknownst to Annalisa, Jack has also joined the Continentals, harboring shameful secrets from his days in mourning. Against the backdrop of war with Britain, façades mount between Jack and Annalisa, and the merry minuet of their adolescence dissolves into a masquerade of deceit, one which threatens to part them forever.
GENRE: Historical Fiction
CATEGORY: New Adult/Adult
PUBLISHER: Pompkin Press
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TRIGGER WARNING: This novel contains depictions of substance abuse, pregnancy loss, battle scenes with violence.

Muskets
& Minuets
A lady,
a musket,
and a dance for freedom
Book 1 of the Muskets Trilogy
Love. Politics. War.
Amidst mounting tensions between the British crown and the American colonists of Boston, Annalisa Howlett struggles with her identity and purpose as a woman. Rather than concern herself with proper womanly duties, like learning to dance a minuet or chasing after the eligible and charming Jack Perkins, Annalisa prefers the company of her brother, George, and her beloved musket, Bixby. She intends to join the rebellion, but as complications in her personal life intensify, and the colonies inch closer to war with England, everything Annalisa thought about her world and womanhood are transformed forever.
Join Annalisa on her journey to discover what it truly means to be a woman in the 18th century, all set against the backdrop of some of the most pivotal moments in American history.
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Events


PRESS
News, Views and More
The Writer Talks
Feisty, Flamboyant Feminist
Host Asha Kumar interviews me about Muskets and Minuets, my life as an ICU nurse, and much more!

History Bards Podcast
Hosts Dee Marley and Michael Zucker of The Historical Fiction Company interviewed me about my historical fiction novels.

Awards
Writing competition distinctions for Muskets and Minuets

Muskets & Minuets wins silver for American Historical Fiction

Muskets & Minuets receives honourable mention for Historical Romance

Muskets and Minuets - 3rd place, unpublished historical category, Romance Writers of America, Kiss of Death Chapter
Muskets and Minuets - 3rd place, unpublished historical category
Muskets and Minuets is 2019 semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition, unpublished novel category



Muskets & Minuets wins gold for YA Historical Fiction