The best way I can describe the feeling of reading a book such as this would be to say that if Dynasty and Downton Abbey had a baby, this would be it! I am telling you, this book will ruin you, break you, steal your breath away so many times, you’ll be breathing into a paper bag by the end of it, and once you recover, you’ll be begging for more more more!! “I was almost over you, Lane. The first instalment in The Bourbon Kings saga, this is the devastatingly compelling story of a very prestigious Southern family from Kentucky-the Bradfords-and it follows the four Bradford siblings and all the scandals and heartbreak entailed upon them by being born into such wealth and privilege.

I am literally struggling to find things to occupy my mind with just so I wouldn’t go back to re-read this fabulous, oh-so addictive, sinfully moreish book, because at the end of the day, no matter how many times I flip those last few pages, no new ones are going to appear. 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 ironfisted Bradford patriarch, a man with few morals, fewer scruples, and many, many terrible secrets.Īs 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. 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 facade. Upstairs, a dynasty that by all appearances plays by the rules of good fortune and good taste. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege-as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly. For generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world.

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