Heiress And Epithet Book 2

Riveting… Page-turning…— The Prairies Book Review 14 - 20 June 1980 Paris, France Toulon, France Claude Freedman revisits with Juliette, in Paris, France, on Bastille Day, 14 July 1980, with all good intentions. However, when conversations begin to heat-up at Juliette and William’s soiree with close friends and family, he surmises he might be surrounded by double-dealers. Adrian still claims Children of the Alliance: 1754-1810 is a ‘literary forgery’ and insists Juliette and Claude sojourn to historic Toulon, France, to investigate the authenticity of the memoir written by their ancestor, Capt. Françoise Reiss III. Exploring the sea faring village on the Mediterranean coast, the cousins are surprised to meet Director Colonel Greton of the Toulon Maritime Museum who discloses damning information about Juliette’s lost heirlooms. Returning to Paris, France, with more questions than answers, Juliette and Claude find themselves involved in a conundrum that spirals out of control with INTERPOL. When faced with the challenges that confront them, Juliette and Claude fear for their family and friends, and that Juliette may lose her dowry, forever, until a ghost from Claude’s past reenters their life…

Toulon, France: 1754 Senegal, West Africa: 1755 St. Augustine, Florida: 1756 - 1810 Book 3 - Children of the Alliance, 1754 – 1810 is the prequel to the series. The story-within-a-story encapsulates the legendary saga and recounts the life of Juliette and Claude’s ancestor’s, knight-errant and Captain, Françoise J. Reiss III, and Prince Boukar Semou Jolof, a.k.a. Luis Freedman, a former Senegalese prince and freed slave. It’s the Age of Enlightenment on the European, African and North Atlantic continents. It's an era when a racial divide makes most men enemies, but Françoise and Luis sacrifice everything to keep their mixed-race families together. Children of the Alliance will hold you captive to a tumultuous world where trading slaves is second nature and exposes the circumstances surrounding how Juliette’s dowry was acquired by her 4th great-grandfather. *Readers are given a glimpse of their ancestors’ journeys with excerpts in Book 1, Mistaken Legacy, and in Book 2, Heiress and Epithet, as Juliette and Claude discover how the captain acquired Juliette’s heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones.

"Riveting… Page-turning…Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The pacing is swift, the action scenes are cinematically developed, and Rose’s moving, assured prose keeps the pages turning..." The Prairies Book Review Setting: Toulon, France: 1754 Senegal, West Africa: 1755 St. Augustine, Florida: 1756 - 1810 Summary: Book 3 - Children of the Alliance, 1754 – 1810 is the prequel to the series. The story-within-a-story encapsulates the legendary saga of the Reiss and Freedman families, recounting the life of Juliette and Claude’s ancestor’s, knight-errant and Captain, Françoise J. Reiss III, and Prince Boukar Semou Jolof, a.k.a. Luis Freedman, a former Senegalese prince and freed slave. It’s the Age of Enlightenment on the European, African and North Atlantic Continents, when a racial divide makes most men enemies Françoise and Luis sacrifice everything to keep their mixed-race families together. The story behind Children of the Alliance will hold you captive to a tumultuous world where trading slaves is second nature and exposes the circumstances surrounding how Juliette’s dowry; the decoratively carved ebony chest and gemstones were acquired by her 4th great-grandfather. Readers are given a glimpse of the ancestors’ journeys with excerpts in Book 1, Mistaken Legacy, and in Book 2, Heiress and Epithet, as Juliette discovers how acquired her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones.

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Excerpt from The Greatest Heiress in England, Vol. 1 of 2 Ford expressed it, was every good thing provided. Sometimes the excellent couple grumbled, and some times felt it hard that being relations there should be so much difi'erence but on the whole both parties were aware that their own comforts profited by the conjunc tion, and the household machinery worked smoothly, with as few jars and as much harmony as is possible to man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Roseanna White Debuts Sparkling British Historical Romance Brook Eden has never known where she truly belongs. Though raised in the palace of Monaco, she's British by birth and was brought to the Grimaldis under suspicious circumstances as a babe. When Brook's friend Justin uncovers the fact that Brook is likely a missing heiress from Yorkshire, Brook leaves the sun of the Mediterranean to travel to the moors of the North Sea to the estate of her supposed family. The mystery of her mother's death haunts her, and though her father is quick to accept her, the rest of the family and the servants of Whitby Park are not. Only when Brook's life is threatened do they draw close--but their loyalty may come too late to save Brook from the same threat that led to tragedy for her mother. As heir to a dukedom, Justin is no stranger to balancing responsibilities. When the matters of his estate force him far from Brook, the distance between them reveals that what began as friendship has grown into something much more. But how can their very different loyalties and responsibilities ever come together? And then, for a second time, the heiress of Whitby Park is stolen away because of the very rare treasure in her possession--and this time only the servants of Whitby can save her.