Kindle Edition Download to your Nook (eBook) Amazon Becky Lower Author Category:  Romance Publisher: Crimson Romance ISBN-10:  1440579024 Type: Fiction Pages: 199 Copyright: April 4, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781440579035 Price: $3.78 (eBook) Fate brings Saffron Fitzpatrick and Ezekiel Boone together once more, three years after their first encounter during the height of the Civil War. People are tired of fighting and death, but Saffron and Zeke may not be able to find their happy-ever-after, especially if an older protective brother and the Army have anything to say about it. Don’t miss the touching conclusion to the Cotillion Ball Saga!   In 1863, America is war-weary. Fifteen-year-old Saffron Fitzpatrick, whose teenage years have been spent mourning the dead rather than dancing at her debutante ball, just wants to visit her beloved horse after being housebound due to the draft riots. A chance meeting with soldier Ezekiel Boone changes everything.   Three years ago, Ezekiel ran away with his older brothers to join the war effort, welcoming the chance for adventure. But when all four of his brothers die at Chancellorsville, he retreats home, despondent and depending on the kindness of strangers, like Saffron, who help him on the journey. They share a wild ride and a breathless kiss, parting with fond memories.   Fate reunites the couple three years later, and their former attraction rekindles as they discover unexpected common ground and begin to build a relationship. But though the war is over, a future together may still elude them … especially if Saffron’s older, protective brother and the U.S. Army have anything to say about it.  Excerpt

The End of the Journey
The Forgotten Debutante is the last, and arguably the best, of the Cotillion Ball series. Although it begins with a brief prologue set in New York at the height of the Civil War, most of the story takes place after the war has ended. Saffron, the youngest of the Fitzpatrick siblings, has moved to Washington, DC where she lives with her brother and his family. She is employed by the Army to locate the Union dead and bring them home for proper burials. Zeke has promised his father that he would find his four older brothers who had all died in the battle of Chancellorsville and return them to the family farm. Three years earlier, Zeke and Saffron had shared their first kiss as he fled north from that very battlefield. Now their attraction is rekindled but will it survive both the differences in their social status and Zeke's risk of a court martial? I highly recommend this romantic love story. It seems like only yesterday that I read The Reluctant Debutante and I can't believe that I have come to the end of the journey. I'm going to miss those Fitzpatricks.

The Forgotten Debutante
"I am not going into any more with regards to this book other than it's seriously fantastic. I do recommend anyone who has a strong love of the civil war and historical romance to give this entire series a read.--5 Stars, The Reading Cafe

A Fan of Becky Lower's
I've been a fan of Becky Lower's Cotillion Ball series since the first one came out. Which is unusual for me--I'm not a big historical fiction reader. But the Fitzpatrick family and the settings of Lower's books in such interesting times in American history not only piqued my interest from the beginning but held my rapt attention through the stories of all the children in the family. This one was no exception.

Saffron is the last of the Fitzpatricks at home. The Civil War is raging and New York City is in the midst of draft riots that have kept Saffy housebound. Restless, she goes out to the barn where she finds a Union soldier runaway hiding--Ezekiel Boone. She helps him escape the city so he can return to his family farm in upstate New York. The encounter marks both of them.

Several years later, the war now over, Zeke and Saffy meet again as they participate in the program to properly and appropriately bury the dead from the battlefields of the war. Each has always remembered the other and now the attraction grows.

But Saffron has kept secret from her family about helping Zeke escape the war. And Zeke has a secret too. Their chance to be together depends on how those secrets play out with family and the Army.

This series is unique for two reasons: First, the characters are realistically portrayed. The reader cares about what happens to every single one of them. Second, the history is woven in so seamlessly and artfully that the reader isn't aware she actually learned something about American history in the course of reading the book.