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Touch the Sun

(1978)
(The second book in the Rakes & Rebels series)
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In 1789, on the eve of the first presidential inauguration, charismatic Lion Hampshire aspires to a seat in the first Congress. In an effort to improve his rakish reputation, he agrees to an arranged marriage with Virginia-bred Priscilla Wade. However, his fiancee's headstrong lady's maid, Meagan, is not who she seems to be and Lion's carefully crafted future may be undone by his passion for the wrong woman...

Filled with Cynthia Wright's hallmarks of warm intimacy, sensual romance, humor, adventure, and colorfully-drawn historical characters like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, Touch the Sun is a shining achievement by a beloved author!

The Beauvisage novels and The Raveneau novels intertwine, with some characters crossing over. Should you wish to listen to them in chronological order, this is the sequence:

1781 - Silver Storm

1783 - Caroline

1789 - Touch the Sun

1793 - Spring Fires (A Beauvisage/Raveneau Novel)

1798 - Smuggler's Moon (The Raveneaus in Cornwall, Book 1) - available for pre-order

1814 - Surrender the Stars

1814 - Natalya

1818 - Silver Sea (A Raveneau/Beauvisage Novel)

1903 - Tempest


Genre: Historical Romance

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