Heaven In His Arms
By
Lisa Verge Higgins
SYNOPSIS
Struggling to survive on the streets of
Paris, Genevieve will do anything to start a new life. She’ll even switch
places with a King’s Girl, one of many penniless young noblewomen destined to
be shipped to the savage French colonies. It’s a dangerous masquerade that
comes with a high price: Once in Quebec, Genny will have to marry a stranger.
Notorious explorer André Lefebvre has too many reasons not to take a wife. He’s launching a western expedition deep into untamed lands—a perilous journey that no gentlewoman could possibly survive. Forced to exchange vows with a King’s Girl in order to receive royal consent, he intends to leave his wife-of-convenience safely behind.
But once set loose in the New World, Genny defies her brawny, free-spirited husband, preferring to seduce rather than obey. She’ll risk any danger for a chance to build a real future . . . even the danger to her own heart.
Notorious explorer André Lefebvre has too many reasons not to take a wife. He’s launching a western expedition deep into untamed lands—a perilous journey that no gentlewoman could possibly survive. Forced to exchange vows with a King’s Girl in order to receive royal consent, he intends to leave his wife-of-convenience safely behind.
But once set loose in the New World, Genny defies her brawny, free-spirited husband, preferring to seduce rather than obey. She’ll risk any danger for a chance to build a real future . . . even the danger to her own heart.
REVIEW
To date, I have loved and enjoyed the
light lyrical works of Lisa Verge Higgins’ Historical Romance novels and
novellas. In His Arms left the “light
and lyrical” behind to delve into the realms of a realistic historical fiction
that covered an Era and place that are typically overlooked by historical
fiction writers. True to Lisa’s style,
the novel maintained the deep emotional and lyrical rhythms of the bedroom that
she is famous for and does so well. But
this time, she left the civilized world behind and planted the hero and heroine
(Genny and Andre) in the deep northern woods of colonial Canada, during the
1700’s when it was still a wild and unexplored territory.
Just as you reached a point in your
reading, when you thought that you might know the back story for Genny, a turn
of the page revealed a new clue leading you down an unexpected path out in the
wilds. But these wilds were not fraught
with blood-curdling, heathens who would lift your scalp (even if Andre tried
his best to get the socialite upper-class French Courtesan to believe
him).
In truth Genny was made of the stuff, and
had the moral caliber and fortitude that women of that day needed to live and
survive in the remote backwoods and wilds of a wilderness. Or, was she running from a bigger monster that
anything that the wilds of the Canadian wilderness could throw her way?
Just like in real life, no matter how
determined you are to lock your heart and mind away, if you continually find it
in close quarters with a wildly enticing creature for days and weeks on end,
whose very essence and being start to seep and creep into your pores, you wear
down. Much like a strong rock wall held
together with old mortar and daub, the fortification slowly crumbles as love
and friendship seep down through the cracks and daub. Finally, one hard knock (a crisis of
potential loss) sends all the final reserves tumbling into a pile of defeat.
I loved the questions that were raised in
the story line, the fact that the ebb and flow allowed each of the readers to
draw their own conclusions to what really happened in Andre and Genny’s past,
and outside the written pages of the novel. I do hope that a sequel to In
His Arms will come along before long, because there are many twists and
turns, and discoveries waiting to happen; along with much more history waiting
to peek out from behind unexpected corners, providing terror and potential
reward.
Lisa gives her readers strong, independent
heroines, who are capable of conquering their worlds and making their own way
through adversity. At the same time, she
knows how to provide strong and stalwart heroes to serve as supporting cast,
without being wimps and bedroom eye-candy.
On the other hand, her cast of villains is varied and crosses the gender
lines. They are as likely be pulled from
places you would expect supporting characters to come from as from the gutters
and barrooms of the back alleys. What
she shows is that goodness and evil prevail in all walks of life. Just like in real life, you never know where
your help will come from, nor where the nefarious blackguard will leap out from
to destroy your world.
Lisa, has left the soufflé romance in the
dirt, with this wonderful piece. I give
it a FIVE STAR rating for
story-telling, character development, and romance.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Lisa Ann Verge is the critically acclaimed
RITA-nominated author of seventeen novels that have been published worldwide
and translated into as many languages. She started her career writing
emotionally intense romances about hot men and dangerous women, and now she
also writes life-affirming women's fiction under the name Lisa Verge Higgins. A
finalist for Romantic Times' book awards five times over, Lisa has won the
Golden Leaf and the Bean Pot, and twice she has cracked Barnes & Noble's
General Fiction Forum's top twenty books of the year. She currently lives in
New Jersey with her husband and their three daughters, who never fail to make
life interesting
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