I doubt that I'll go back and read the middle books of the series but will finish it out whenever the last one is published. But most of the action is in North Carolina, ending with the famous Kings Mountain battle. Lots of history to enjoy in this one, side characters make a trip up to New York & the Mohawk Nation, meeting and dealing with Joseph Brandt (a fascinating historical character, a well travelled Mohawk who eventually settled in Canada after his support of the British in the Revolution). Those just seem to get in the way of the basic story to me. But, it also leads to author temptations to have time traveling extra characters pop in who have not gotten to the 18th century accidentally but are there plotting to change history in various ways. The basic plot device, time travel through the "standing stones", gives the author a way to have a 20th century independent educated (former WWII combat nurse, then doctor) woman in the midst of all sorts of 18th century situations and battles, giving us her modern viewpoint. But, somehow, I started the last one in series and really enjoyed it, found it more of a historical novel, with details about frontier life in the North Carolina mountains. I read the first 4 in this series many, many years ago but they were starting to drag and the novels were always so very full of "high drama and trauma" that I gave them up.
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