The Lost Heirs series

Marie Anne Montford, a.k.a. Mary Chilton, is one of three aristocratic English children who were orphaned by the French Revolution. In England it was believed that the children all died, but the youngest (Alexandra) returned in Candace Camp’s 1999 release, Stolen Heart. Marianne, as she now calls herself, has no memory of her life before…

I have to hand it to Candace Camp: she’s a terrific writer. It was only after I’d finished reading A Stolen Heart that I realized it was based on a preposterous premise and contained a couple of elements that would have caused me to roll my eyeballs in exasperation if a writer with lesser skills…