A Caribbean Heiress in Paris is a unique historical romance that takes readers on a journey through different locations such as Paris and Scotland. The book introduces diverse and fleshed out characters, including a strong and independent heroine from the Caribbean and a charming hero from Scotland. The plot revolves around a marriage of convenience between the main characters, Luz Alana and Evan, as they navigate challenges related to their businesses and personal lives. The writing style is described as lush, authentic, and creative, with the author skillfully addressing themes like misogyny, racism, and slavery in a historical setting.
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Content warnings include themes surrounding racism, patriarchy, and the historical implications of slavery.
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The romance in A Caribbean Heiress in Paris is prominent and integral to the plot, marked by chemistry and emotional engagement between characters.
From The Publisher:
Entertainment Weekly's Best Romance Book of 2022 so far!
"Herrera excels at propelling the romance genre and its form forward, and this book is no exception... Herrera is crafting swoony historical romances that aren't afraid to engage with the realities of the 19th-century while still making a bid for hard-earned happily-ever-afters."- Entertainment Weekly
"A romp-filled and refreshingly diverse historical romance."- Buzzfeed
Paris, 1889
The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe … including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire.
Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but buyers and shippers alike can't imagine doing business with a woman…never mind a woman of color. This, paired with being denied access to her inheritance unless she marries, leaves the heiress in a very precarious position.
Enter James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, who has spent a decade looking for purpose outside of his father's dirty money and dirtier dealings. Ignoring his title, he's built a whisky brand that's his biggest-and only-passion. That is, until he's confronted with a Spanish-speaking force of nature who turns his life upside down.
From their first tempestuous meeting, Luz Alana is conflicted. Why is this titled-and infuriatingly charming-Scottish man so determined to help her?
For Evan, every day with Luz Alana makes him yearn for more than her ardent kisses or the marriage of convenience that might save them both. But Luz Alana sailed for Paris prepared to build her business and her future; what she wasn't prepared for was love finding her.
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Ooof, I am so of two minds on this one. I LOVE reading a historical set in Britain and France that actually acknowledges, reckons with, and proposes an alternative to the imperialism, colonialism, and enslavement that supported the lives of wealthy people in those nations at that time (and through their knock-on effects still support wealth today). I love that Las Léonas are young women of intelligence, drive, and accomplishment -- a doctor, an artist, and the FMC of this novel, a distiller. And it's got all kinds of histrom-typical hijinks done with pace and verve -- funny business with heirs and inheritance, secrets, dramatic revelations, plots, schemes, a fancy party, and more.
But -- the FMC's whole "ugh, I hate you, do me now!" thing with the MMC *really* didn't work for me. It just put me right off. I'm still glad I read it (and am even proposing it as a book club read), but oof. So consider whether that's a "nope" for you or not.
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