Through the Storm
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Average rating3.8
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Ratings2
Average rating3.8
Married For Money Raimond Le Veq needed to marry to gain his inheritance and restore the fortunes of the House of Le Veq, the proud Black New Orleans family whose wealth had been ravaged by the War Between the States. Still wounded by the double-cross of the only woman he ever came close to loving, he gave the choice of bride to his mother. But he never expected that she would pick Sable Fontaine-the beautiful former slave he could not allow himself to trust again. Freed By PassionBetrayed and sold to a cruel neighbor, Sable did whatever it took to escape. With the spirits of her royal African ancestors guiding her, she made a bold bid for freedom, and won. But along the way she had to hurt the charming Union Major Le Veq, who had romanced her and championed her. Now fate has brought them back together in a marriage of convenience. Can she convince Raimond she was never a Rebel spy, and that this time, she'd choose him above all else?
Series
4 primary booksLe Veq Family is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1998 with contributions by Beverly Jenkins.
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I loved that ending!!
I didn't like how the hero believed the worst of our heroine for what felt like way too long for me.
My first book of 2023! There are authors I know I can count on, and Beverly Jenkins is one of them. I love her characters and her stories and how each is written with the compassion – that you help people when you can.
Our couple is Sable and Raimond. They meet at a Union camp in the waning days of the war – she's fleeing slavery, and he runs the camp. Eventually there's a misunderstanding where he thinks she's a Rebel spy. The story then moves to New Orleans, and Raimond's family.
Her characters go through adversity, or have gone through it. After all, her heroines and heroes are Black, living often in the South during or after the Civil War. But Beverly Jenkins also shows her characters persevering, finding joy, finding power, and triumphing against those who wish them harm.
The author never goes to ridiculous lengths to come up with a misunderstanding to keep our couple apart, or takes a desire for revenge for a broken heart too far. The books have these things, but the main conflict is usually the couple against the world, not the couple against each other.
I've read another book in the Le Veq family series, Rebel, as well as other books that also tie into this world, like Forbidden. I'm not sure there's a bad place to start with this author. You can even do a contemporary, like Rare Danger!
What a great cover, too.
