Evangeline: Paradise Stolen, Vol. I

5-time award-winning historical fiction based on true events of passion, political intrigue and adventure in glamorous 17th century Versailles and France's former New World colony Acadia, now English Nova Scotia. King Louis XV strategizes with adviser Cardinal de Fleury against English treachery and demands for allegiance from the French Acadians. Appointing Royal Notary Lord René Le Blanc de Verdure as Acadian Royal Consul in Grand Pré and arranging his marriage to the beautiful yet mysterious Lady Eugenie de Beaufort, pregnant by an unknown father, the King charges René to calm the English hotbed of deception in Acadia and report back to him. A chance shipboard meeting, a birth and a death forever change René's destiny and that of his daughter Evangeline. Can they survive the uncertainty of English rule or will their paradise be stolen?