The Masks of Strangers by Lina J. Potter

She is a fighter and a wise woman just to survive her many trials. She is a healer and breaks all the molds of females of that era.

She eventually gains admiration, love and respect not only of her husband but many nobleman and women of several countries. She becomes wealthy making numerous friends and allies along the way. She becomes an oddity for a woman of that time and extraordinary entrepreneur and manager of their estate. How does she ever change - to a loving stepmother to a sweet daughter, a vivacious and disciplined beauty, and exceptionally bright inventer (of course with ideas hundreds of years ahead of that time). From a frumpy cow forsaken by a husband who stays away and only visits for a brief conjugal visit she is then left to for in a remote estate in the care of inept and thieving scoundrels at the mercy of would be assassins. As a near death experience of the host she has reason to be different and how different can she be. She awakens in another body hundreds of years earlier in a world drastically different from our modern era and in a body sick and so different from her previous one. But that's just the beginning of her story. Lillian Earton, who started out as a modern young graduate and ends her life along with her parents in a tragic auto accident. A #1 Amazon bestseller series in multiple categories continues with a new twist.What a delightful series of novels. Potter starts with a new page to prove that Lilian is strong enough to fight for her place in the world and her happiness no matter what. *** Lilian's adventures in the Middle Ages continue in book 10 of A Medieval Tale. It's time to take her destiny into her own hands.

It's not like she would want his or anyone's rescue, anyway. Lofrayne is a far cry from a Prince Charming as which he seems to fancy himself-but then, Lily's no a damsel in distress, either. Alas, she is accompanied by the accursed Baron. When the ship is attacked by pirates, Lilian, helped by a chance acquaintance hoping to get his own revenge on her, manages to escape in a rowboat and reach the shore. How does one escape a vessel on the high seas, really? You have to move, crawl on all fours, sail with every wind, use any chance you might get.and then, sooner or later, life will offer you its hand. In the end, she is kidnapped, her carriage stopped on the way to Castle Taral, her guards killed, and the countess herself locked on a ship headed for Avester. But when Anthory, Baron Lofrayne, also shows up in the capital of Ativerna, Lilian has to admit-she hates him much more than she might ever hate the killer. A nobleman, he moves in the same circles as Miri and might be even talking to her. Here, letting down your guard is not an option. Enemies are everywhere-even the land itself is a foe.

The Masks of Strangers by Lina J. Potter