Marie Lavender

Upon Your Return, book one of the Heiresses in Love Series by Marie Lavender
1853 Fara and her story of how her parents met and she doesn't want to leave home..
She is a young girl and is being sent to her uncle Michel and has heard things that make her think things will be grim.
She returns after being educated and he has business dealings that don't end well. She is then sent to live with an aunt Lina in France.
Love all the travel and to find more on the seas is even refreshing to me. Captain Grant rescues her many times over when she's betrayed from a fiancée. Grant and his first mate track down who hired the mobsters and deal with them.
Adult situations, tender loving and caring. He has to flee the country and others take her to be tortured into the information they think she has. Aunt Lina arrives just in time to rescue her and take her back to her house.
She spends a lot of time with her, educating her about the ways of the world and society. She learns of Grant's medical problem and hurries to help nurse him back to health.
As time goes on he does return after he is no longer in exile to find her. Surprises that await him after several years and she has explaining to do. Love how strong she is and will stand up to her pursuers and captives with no regard to danger she is really in.
Love hearing of the dances and other society events.
Really enjoyed this and didn't realize there is a maritime Victorian genre. Can't wait to read more from this author.
Included at the end is about the author and her works with synopsizes.
Received this review copy from the author and this is my honest opinion.… (mais)

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