Review: The Beauvisages
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
Book One, Caroline. Cynthia Wright's debut novel. Alec finds a beautiful woman unconscious and suffering from amnesia deep in the woods. He is an incorrigible and unrepentant rake, but soon finds himself in the role as her guardian. Protecting her will not be easy, however, especially from himself.  This book gets 4 stars.Book Two, Touch the Sun.  Intent on being elected to the first US Congress,  Lion is set on a marriage of convenience. So when he meets James in a tavern in Philadelphia, he agrees to marry his sister and travels to Virginia to claim her. There he meets a black haired beauty who is her lady's maid. At age eighteen, Megan Sayers finds herself orphaned and left destitute because of her parent's extravagance. She plots to evade going to live with a spinster aunt in Boston by becoming her friend's lady maid. Lion has become rich by force of will and luck. But he finds himself in a no win situation between his beautiful betrothed and her gamine lady maid. I loved this book and didn't want it to end. I wanted a huge epilogue!  It gets 4 plus stars.Book Three, Spring Fires.  Lisette Hahn is the owner of a  coffee house popular for gatherings by the leaders of Philadelphia. Nicholai Beauvisage has returned from ten years in France overseeing the family vineyard.  The French Revolution is underway and he barely escaped with his life, though his lover lost hers.  Nic and Lis meet on the night of his return, the night Lisette loses her father, and they come together in their mutual grief.  But nothing is easy for these two.This book gave me the epilogue I wanted for book two, plus brought in earlier couples. I am now totally captivated by the tandem Ravenau and Beauvisage Series. It gets 4.5 stars.Took a break for Surrender the Stars, Book Two of the Raveneau series.Book Four, Natalya. And Grey. Natalya Beauvisage has spent the past six years at her uncle Nic's French estate writing her first novel. Because of the wars, she is unable to return home to Philadelphia. A scruffy stranger dressed in black appears one night while her uncle is away.  Grey is an Englishman who has escaped from Bonaparte' s prison.  She soon learns her family owes a debt of honor to this rapscallian, and at his request, she helps him escape France. In return he guarantees her safe passage to America. But once they are in London, Grey finds his world has been turned upside down during his absence. And the sheltered Natalya is no match for the devious ways of a proprietess who has designs on Natalya and her niece.  But this is just the beginning of Natalya' s long journey home.This series just keeps getting better. I give this book 4.5 stars.