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My review:
4⭐
Genre ~ historical fiction
Publication date ~ August 11, 2023
Page Count ~ 264
POV ~ single 1st & dual 3rd
Featuring ~ 7 part story, dual timeline ~ 2020 & 1809/1810, off page r@pe, no steamage
We get to know Carla in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. Carla meets, Mani, an American in Cornwall on business and now stuck there due to the lockdown. They form a friendship and share an interest in family history and begin researching their roots together.
Then we’re brought back to 1809 and meet Harriet & Lady Frances, better known as Franny, who are in a secret romantic relationship. Franny is r@ped and gets pregnant, so her father sends her off to give birth in seclusion with Harriet by her side. William, Franny’s best friend and half brother (not the rapist), played a big part in the story as a smuggler and a savior.
I like that it wasn’t a back and forth with the timeline, but a few chapters in one before moving onto the other, which gave me an opportunity to really get to know the characters. I could do without Covid talk in my fiction, however I thought the author did a great job of depicting what it was like to live through it ~ from lockdown to social distancing to virtual learning to wearing masks to social butterfly’s having a difficult time adjusting…nearly nothing was left out.
Overall, historical fiction is not my go to genre, but I found myself immersed in this story. The timelines are brilliantly woven together to bring us a fascinating tale of ancestry, love, loss and new beginnings. Interestingly, I enjoyed the historical timeline a smidgen more, but also enjoyed the mystery in the present.
*Thanks to the author and Rachel’s Random Resources for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
Book blurb:
Cornwall, 2020
At the beginning of lockdown, teacher Carla Burgess needs to make some changes to her life. She no longer loves her job, and it’s certainly time to kick her on-off boyfriend into touch. But then, while walking on the cliffs she meets, Mani Dolcoath, a gorgeous American with a dark aura.
Mani is researching his family history, and slowly their lives and their heritage begin to entwine. The discovery of a locked Georgian tea caddy in the barn on her parents’ farm intrigues Carla, but then she starts to see orbs, something that hasn’t happened since her grandmother died. They terrify her and she’ll do anything to outrun them, but will she lose Mani’s friendship in the process?
Cornwall, 1810
Harriet Lemon’s position as companion to Lady Frances Basset (Franny) perfectly conceals the fact they are lovers. But when Franny is raped and falls pregnant their lives are destined to change forever.
The one person who may be able to help them is Franny’s childhood friend, William Burgess, a notorious smuggler. But he has secrets of his own he needs to protect. Will his loyalties be divided, or will he come through?
Purchase Link – https://getbook.at/LostHeir
Author Bio –
Jane Cable writes romance with a twist and its roots firmly in the past, more often than not inspired by a tiny slice of history and a beautiful British setting.
After independently publishing her award-winning debut, The Cheesemaker’s House, Jane was signed by Sapere Books. Her first two novels for them are contemporary romances looking back to World War 2; Another You inspired by a tragic D-Day exercise at Studland Bay in Dorset and Endless Skies by the brave Polish bomber crews who flew from a Lincolnshire airbase.
Jane lives in Cornwall and her current series, Cornish Echoes, are dual timeline adventure romances set in the great houses of the Poldark era and today. She also writes as Eva Glyn.
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