The Exiles
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3.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
Book one of The Creoles Series, captivating novels from bestselling authors Gilbert and Lynn Morris, introduces Chantel Fontaine. Readers follow Chantel through the streets and swamps of Louisiana as she falls in love, faces the loss of both her parents, and searches for the baby sister she thought was lost forever.
The culture of the citizens of nineteenth-century New Orleans was as varied and intriguing as their complexions-French, Spanish, African, and American. As the layers of these cultures intertwine, a rich, entertaining story of love and faith emerges. It is the early 1800s, and Chantel Fountaine, has finished her education at the Ursuline Convent. But the trials and tragedies that preceded her graduation have put her Christian beliefs to the test.
The authors' unique perspective and the distinctive cultural setting make this novel come alive in the minds and hearts of readers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
What do Baptist college professors do when they retire? If they're like Morris, they crank out more than 170 novels for the CBA market and create a huge fan base for their genre fiction. Here, with his coauthor and daughter, the Christy Award winner once again dashes off exactly the type of formula fiction that is the bane of the literary crowd and the joy of his devoted readership. This first book in the proposed four-volume Creoles series is set in Louisiana in the 19th century and follows the lives of one of four girlfriends at a Catholic boarding school. The protagonist of this first volume, Chantel Fontaine, encounters catastrophes that unfold relentlessly: neglect by a gambling, adulterous father; the accidental death of her mother; the supposed death of a sibling; a dashing but unworthy suitor who loves her for her money; an indifferent stepmother; a shoot-out in the bayou; and, of course, romance with a boy-next-door type. Along the way, Chantel discovers that Catholicism does not offer her the hope of her friend Neville Harcourt's Protestantism, and she predictably converts. The years pass quickly (approximately 20 years in less than 300 pages), which makes for sketchy character development. Like cotton candy, this novel's substance is thin, the plot line is treacly and the dialogue is sometimes stiff. Yet all the elements of successful light adventure romance for evangelical Christian readers are here, and Morris's faithful following will likely devour this new series.
