GRR Reviews Heaven In His Arms by Lisa Ann Verge

Heaven in His Arms picked an interesting historical setting, "King's Girls" when the French King ordered a lot of young women to be shipped from France to the colonies and get married to the male colonists (with a stipend from the King himself) in order to bolster the local population. Add some intrigue, and a bit of frontier adventure and you have an interesting historical romance.

Genevieve is barely surviving on the streets of Paris, with no future, when circumstances gave her a chance at a new life... a young noblewoman Marie was picked as one of the "King's Girls", about to be shipped off to the new North American French colonies to marry a local. But Marie doesn't want to go... and Genevieve can't stay. So they agreed to switch places... Marie will become Genie and run off with her love in Paris, while Genie will become Marie and take her chances in Canada. The switch was successful, but illness on the way means Genie/Marie arrived in the colonies half-dead, and she was married off anyway... to a man who was determined to remain single, for adventure was his life, and a wife would only slow him down, and she was not expected to survive. But survive she did, and she quickly added herself onto his next expedition... As they continue on their adventure, her husband knew that she was not whom she seems to be... for this "noblewoman" seems to know skills that no noblewoman should possess... and every day brought them closer together...

Obviously, this was romanticized... This is a romance! But frontier tale, King's Girl, and a "fake" noblewoman, sure added up to an interesting historical romance.

Category: Historical Romance

Primary Plot: One of the rare romances set among the "King's Girls" in the 1800's

Tropes: disguise, fish out of water

Overall Rating:  4/5