The Seduction of Shay Deveraux

THE SEDUCTION OF SHAY DEVERAUX is a wonderful account of Shay a.k.a. Gaeton Deveraux of Louisiana and his trials of finding love and coming home and making a place for himself in the reconstruction era. Be sure to follow up with the Deveraux family in THE MARRIAGE AGREEMENT.

This is an excellent follow-up to MAGGIE'S BEAU.We find out what happens to Shay [turns out to be a Devereaux] a year later after he leaves Beau Jackson's ranch.Shay Devereaux finally gets around to looking up Jenny Pennington, the wife of his friend Carl. This is four years after Carl's death in the prison camp.Shay finds Jenny, a woman he could possibly learn to love, trying to hold onto her husband's plantation for their little son, Marshall.Marshall and Jenny walk into Shay's damaged heart without his being aware of it. Jenny and Marsh seduced Shay with unconditional love.Isabel and Noah and their sons are helping Jenny to hang onto the plantation after the war and are just barely making ends meet.Although Shay refuses to talk about his past -- we eventually find out what happened when he left Beau and Maggie and how the prison camp scarred his life.Shay reluctantly starts to build a family with Jenny and Marsh. Then includes Jonah, Jenny's father and finally his own family, LeRoy Devereaux and Letitia, his mother and father and brother, Roan Devereaux and his wife Katherine and little Jeremy. It turns out to be a wonderful family gathering.these three books are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and a great addition to your library. Keepers all.