Review: A step back to the 1700's
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
Book One:  Fierce Eden. Jennifer Blake brings history to life in the most seductive way...wrapped up in romantic suspense. I love her books, and love this one in particular. Set in 1730, it narrates the Indian wars through which the French in effect eradicated the Natches Indians.  Reynaud is the son of a French comte and Natches Indian royalty. He has been educated in the Louisiana wilderness and the courts of Europe. Elise is a French widow, on the run after an attack by the Natches on the fort and settlers in retaliation for attacks on them by the French.  She escapes to the woods, but freedom is elusive, for the French and the Natches.Book Two: Louisiana Dawn. Cyrene' s parents died shortly after her family's arrival to New Orleans from France. The family had been taken in by two brothers, who then acted  as Cyrene's guardians while they engage in trading with the English, made illegal since the outbreak of hostilities between England and France.  Rene' is a libertine exiled to Louisiana by the King of France.  One night he is attacked and thrown into the river, thought to be dead.  But Cyrene sees a body thrown into the water by two men, a body wearing a very expensive coat, a coat can be used in trade.  It is only after she begins to pull  him from the water that she learns he is still alive. And nothing about her life will ever be the same.Book Three:  Embrace and Conquer.  The change of ownership of Louisiana from France to Spain has been three years in implementation. Long enough for resistance to grow among the French inhabitants of New Orleans. The King of Spain sends in troops and a firmly devoted governor to put down the rebellion and make examples of its leaders. Morgan, an Irish mercanary, is second in command. Fe'licite', a merchant's daughter, is caught in the Spaniard' s net because of the actions of her father toward independence and the perfidy of her adopted brother.  As she faces losing all she holds dear, she must make untenable choices.