As family tensions - professional and intimately private - ignite, Easterly and all its inhabitants are thrown into the grips of an irrevocable transformation, and only the cunning will survive. No one will be left unmarked: not Tulane's beautiful and ruthless wife not his older brother, whose bitterness and bad blood know no bounds and especially not the iron-fisted Bradford patriarch, a man with few morals, fewer scruples, and many, many terrible secrets. The House of Bourbon, French in origin, was enthroned in Spain upon the death of Charles II, the last Habsburg monarch, who named as his heir to Spain and its overseas empire the duke of Anjou, second son of Louis, the Grand Dauphin of France, and Maria Ana of Bavaria. Now, after two years of staying away, Tulane is finally coming home again, and he is bringing the past with him. Falling in love with Tulane, the prodigal son of the bourbon dynasty, was nothing that she intended or wanted - and their bitter breakup only served to prove her instincts were right. And never the twain shall meet.įor Lizzie King, Easterly's head gardener, crossing that divide nearly ruined her life. Downstairs, the staff who work tirelessly to maintain the impeccable Bradford fa ade. Upstairs, a dynasty that by all appearances plays by the rules of good fortune and good taste.

Bourbon kings returned to the French throne after the Revolution, ruling again from. The Bourbon sovereignties Henry IV’s heirs were kings of France uninterruptedly from 1610 to 1792, when the monarchy was suspended during the first Revolution. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege - as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly. In France, the Bourbons ruled as absolute monarchs from 15891792. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood delivers the first novel in an enthralling new series set amid the shifting dynamics of a Southern family defined by wealth and privilege - and compromised by secrets, deceit, and scandal.įor generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world.

The bourbon kings