Brigitte, has a normal, happy life. Eventually she will get married, have kids, and enjoy the white picket fence. When her mother asks her to help with a geneaology project, Brigitte agrees and discovers quite a few surprises hidden within her family history. She learns about Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, who ended up marrying into the family of a French marquis, to the shock of the community and their families. Brigitte delves deeper to learn more and understand her familys' past.
Brigitte's character was nice to get to know. She is a character who is easy to relate too. Her inquisitive nature combined with a natural intelligence makes her easy to like and the perfect catalyst for this story's plot. Wachiwi was calm and serene even though her landscape completely changed due to the marriage. Her quiet, but implacable nature makes her very likable and interesting to the reader. The secondary characters, particularly the love interests were also interesting and served to round out the story.
LEGACY is yet another winner from the prestigious Danielle Steel. The novel is impossible to put down, new twists and developments are always occurring. The events were fast-paced and the ending was ideal.
Β This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly
interweaves the lives of two womenβa writer working in the
heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on
an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result
is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the
unknown.At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a
job she likes, a man she loves, and a book on the womenβs
suffrage movement that she will finishβsomeday. Someday is
Brigitteβs watchword. Someday she and Ted, a rising star in
the field of archaeology, will clarify their relationship.
Someday she will have children. Someday she will stop
playing it so safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston,
Brigitteβs life is jolted. Suddenly everything she counted
on has changed and she finds herself questioning every
choice she has made along the way. As she struggles to
regain her balance and plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to
help her mother on a family genealogy project. In Salt Lake
City at the Family History Library, she makes a stunning
discoveryβreaching back to the French aristocracy. How did
Brigitteβs mysterious ancestor Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux,
travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinetteβand into the arms of a French
marquis? How did she come to marry into Brigitteβs family?
What is the truth behind the tantalizing clues in the
fragmented, centuries-old records?Β Following the threads of
Wachiwiβs life, Brigitte travels to South Dakota, then on to
Paris, irresistibly drawn to this brave young woman who
lived so long ago. And as she comes closer to solving the
puzzle of Wachiwiβs journey, her previously safe, quiet life
becomes an adventure of its own. A chance meeting with a
writer of historical fiction, a new opportunity, and a
difficult choice put Brigitte at last in the forefront of
her own story. With a complex and powerful family legacy
coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the
future. Instead, in Danielle Steelβs mesmerizing new novel,
someday is now.Β From the Hardcover edition.
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