#Sponsored #Review I wanted to share a new book with you called The Elusive Smuggler: Part One of Behind The Shadow by Antoinette George (Author) I received a PDF Copy of from the Author and Voracious Readers in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
The Elusive Smuggler: Part One of Behind The Shadow is a adult historical romance and it does get spicy at times and is for someone 18 and up. The book takes place in the Regency Era and the Author brings us a story based on the art of smuggling during the French Revolution. This is the first book in the series and I plan on reading other books in the series.
Francis Alexander Granville is the Duke of Firle, but he is also a smuggler, master swordsman, and bad boy ladies man and rake. Wouldn’t this be a guy you would have liked to meet? Francis Alexander Granville is living in the midst of the French Revolution, and making profit from it by snuggling French goods and fleeing Frenchmen and their families into England.
Along the way , Francis meets Cat, a young French woman who’s family has been incarcerated for being of minor nobility. Cat is also a master swordsman, but she needs the help of a smuggler to help her free her family and get them out of France. Francis is the perfect man for this, and here is a fun fact for you Cat likes him!
About the book:
Behind The Shadow: A thrilling, swashbuckling, unputdownable romantic read.
This is the gripping story of one man with two lives and the woman he craves, but cannot have.
He was the handsome aristocrat and charismatic adventurer who created a dynasty and she was the feisty, unconventional woman he loved. He was English and she was French, two strong-willed people determined never to give in to each other, and a devious, diabolical enemy determined to exact revenge on the smuggler who had constantly evaded him and thwarted his nefarious plans. Set at the end of the 18th Century when France was on the cusp of a bloodthirsty Revolution, this is an exciting tale of daring escapes, broken promises, distrust and misunderstandings, all threaded through by a passionate and turbulent love affair, a scorching romance that wouldn’t be denied.
Part One: The Elusive Smuggler France 1790. A Country in turmoil and you’re desperate. Your family has been unjustly thrown into a fortress prison for reasons nothing to do with the Revolution and it’s down to you to rescue them, if you can, before they meet a grim fate. So what to do when you only have a crippled brother to aid you?
With law and order breaking down and justice gone missing, you decide only someone with a ruthless reputation can help, a devious and cunning criminal, if you can find the man you’ve heard about. The brutal and corrupt Regional Governor has been trying for years without success, but that won’t discourage you because you’re an exceedingly determined woman, willful and somewhat eccentric, and you’ll pay or do anything if this man can help facilitate an escape from the fortress and get your family out of France.
Marie-Catherine de Mornay had always got her way and done what she wanted, and succeeded, but that was before she met The Shadow. However, Edgar Bernheim, the venal Governor, had his own private agenda, for which the Revolution was merely a front, and was an exceedingly vengeful man people took on at their peril…
About the author: Antonette George
Antoinette has always been a student of history but is also a lover of fluffy cats, dancing the Argentine tango, and escapist and exciting romantic literature, but not necessarily in that order. And now she has reinvigorated the sweeping, romantic saga for the twenty twenties: The Granville Legacy Series, and events, locations and characters in the stories reflect many of these diverse interests, especially her travels.
History has always fascinated her and she loves visiting old and interesting places, especially those with lots of narrow, cobbled streets, or ancient buildings to wander around, and imagining the events that took place there centuries before. A lot of the locations of the stories or events in her books are as a result of places she’s been to and experienced for herself… except, as she says, nothing so exciting ever happened to her when she was there!
She writes the type of novels she’s always loved to read: romance, both historical and contemporary – full of drama, adventure, suspense, excitement, passion and humour, with a touch of pathos here and there, and flawed heroes and heroines because she thinks perfect people are boring. Hers are compelling, long and involved stories to get absorbed and lost in, that make you want to read on and on and not put down until you’ve found out what happens to all the disparate and fascinating characters that thread through them. And, of course, good always wins over evil, even if the circumstances are slightly unconventional. And when you’ve finished one, you have to read the next set in the series to find out about that character’s story. The Granville Legacy is a whole series – some historical (Regency period) and some contemporary – but all the books are connected.
Antoinette used to work in the world of media and marketing, but instead of reading to pass the time, she started writing her stories on the train as she commuted from home to her office in the centre of London and she got hooked on her new hobby which now takes up more and more of her time than her professional work, which she now only does occasionally. She lives by the seaside in Sussex, in the south of England; her family think her crazy and obsessed with her novel writing, but her books will keep you engrossed for weeks and weeks and weeks…
If you haven’t already checked it out, there’s lot more about the next book sets in my major series on my website at www.antoinettegeorge.com, so pay me a visit there when you’ve got a momen
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
