Follow the two stories, with two very equal starts but with two completly different characters and perspectives. Celeste and Lorraine, two young women from the seventeenth century are about to experience a rollercoaster of emotions and adventures just to satisfy their parents and the very strict society of their present.
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Date: 01/23/2021
Reads: 191K
Votes: 11.1K
Chapters: 34
Time: 7h 45m
Author: Ilana Quinn (Purplejeans)
Official synopsis of the book:
*WATTY'S 2020 WINNER*
Paris, 1663. 500 girls selected by King Louis XIV embark on a journey across the seas from their homeland. Each is given a dowry, and the expectation that they are to marry a French settler, in order to increase the population of New France. They are the historic Daughters of the King, or "les filles du roi."
Eighteen-year-old Celeste Dubois is a free-spirited, educated and headstrong girl. She comes from a wealthy Parisian family that has squandered their money and is subsequently forced to journey to New France. However, Celeste doesn't plan on marrying a complete stranger. She hopes to use the dowry and the free voyage as a way to escape the poverty and social ranks of Paris. Matters are complicated when against her will, she falls in love.
Eighteen-year-old, sweet, romantic, kind and stunningly beautiful Lorraine Leblanc is a girl from a large family with "children to spare." Unlike Celeste, she happily dreams of the day she will meet her future husband in New France. When she marries a mysterious widower with two young children of his own and still reeling after his broken heart, she realizes that married life isn't all she had hoped it would be, and begins to question her new husband's complicated past.
- Wattpad Picks Blast to the Future Past list 2018
- The 50 Best Wattpad Stories of 2018/19 by Design Wizard
- 2018 Youngblood Awards Winner (Romance)
- 2018 True North Awards 2nd place for Historical Fiction and 2nd place Truly Canadian special category award
- Featured by Wattpad Historical Fiction profile under Kings, Courtships and Empires, Young Adult Fiction profile under Love, Actually and Romance profile under Time will Tell
*Please be aware that since this book covers the colonial period, it does contain sensitive themes of racism and violence that readers will find disturbing. There are resources at the back of the book that provide further learning in the Historical Notes section.*
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