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In the epic conclusion of the Lazare Family Saga, two very different brothers must become allies to save the woman they both love.
Charleston, South Carolina, 1860. For nine long years, Clare Stratford has struggled to understand her mother’s final choice. The truth comes at a devastating price.
Clare’s lifelong love, Dr. David Lazare, risks everything to heal her wounded body. But only the medicine of David’s Cheyenne brother, Ésh, can mend Clare’s shattered soul. Ésh offers her an escape from her past and from the South that has condemned her.
Can a scarred Southern belle find peace and purpose amongst Cheyenne tipis? Or, as the country hurtles toward civil war, does Clare’s destiny lie back East alongside her beloved physician?
At once intimate drama and multigenerational epic, Sweet Medicine is the final book in the sweeping Lazare Family Saga that transports readers from the West Indies to the Wild West, from Charleston, Paris, and Rome into the depths of the human heart. The series begins with Necessary Sins.
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Customers praise the author’s prose and pacing. They find the story touching, tender, and memorable. Readers appreciate the history of the family and find the characters fascinating. Overall, they describe the book as a masterful story that concludes the Lazare Family Saga.
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Steve Learned –
A masterful story that concludes the Lazare Family Saga
I have read all four volumes of this series and enjoyed this one the most. Bell anchors her story with Tessaâs daughter, Clare, who in book 3 grew into a young woman and fell passionately in love with Esh, a white boy rescued out West and raised by Cheyenne Indians but who returns to Charleston to locate his extended family. More informed about her motherâs death, Clare is fearless and unforgettable in volume 4: âa creature of fields and forestsââ¦.âa fledging who strode boldly to the edge of the nest and leapt without hesitation because she knew her wings were strong enough to carry her.â Bell leads her readers through a maze of Plantation misdeeds, lust, and murder. Then, on the eve of the Civil War, she plants her readers on steam locomotives and stagecoaches for a journey out West.Bell is at her best capturing the living conditions of Cheyenne Indians in the final years of their freedom before the âblue coatsâ confine them to reservations. She does her research, and she knows her geography. Anyone who has driven across the American Great Plains (not on Interstate 80 but on one of the many two lane highways) will appreciate her prose. âIt was ever changing,â Bell writes. âMorning to evening, light and shadows transfigured the ridges and valleys. Billows of earth concealed creeks, ponds, and flowers and so many animals if you knew where to lookâ¦the scale of it humbled you.â The trip out West leads to a gratifying ending of the Lazare Family saga, a story definitely worth reading. Indeed, no one will be disappointed reading anyone of her four books.
A. Brooklynite –
Good Finale
I’ve read all the other three books of the series. The historical span of the series was engaging, as was the struggles of the characters. What I really, really wished in this book (and the last) was more development of the plot, especially of what happened to Easter, Verily, and their families. Sure, the hot steamy parts were nice, but I think they detracted from other parts of the book that could have been more told.
Debbie Davies –
I didn’t want it to end
This series was great. It is one of the few books that I had trouble putting down. I loved the whole series. Most of the books were not predictable and that is what really kept me interested. The sex scenes I thought were a bit much but I liked that the color of people’s skin and sex are not bad or nasty but a fact of life that should be embraced. Well done Ms. Bell!
Terri Bee –
these stories are awesome
I was hooked from the very first chapter, The author pulled me in, so I felt as if I was a part of the Lazzare family.Once I started this series, I could not stop âI would read for 7 hours straight, to the exclusion of everything else in my world.The characters were fascinating- plots were brilliantly fleshed out.I am looking forward to reading more by this author.
Catherine Hartman –
Tender, touching, a celebration of life
All the characters in these books are so well developed by the author that I almost feel like I know them. There is love, loss, tragedy and much complexity of human, whether, black, white, Indian or African. An immersive, amazing book.
Melody Rainwater –
Soft porn review.
I loved the characters and the story for the most part. However there was so much sex that went into so much detail I missed most of the books for skimming over them. Less is more.
Babsrn78 –
Good But….
I debated reading all 4 books. The series was extremely well written and had a good storyline. I gave it 4 stars because I didn’t find the constant explicit sex necessary. I’m far from being a prude, but it got to the point I was rolling my eyes and skimming pages. I wish there would’ve been more story and less sex. To each their own.
Kindle Customer. Shirley Speere. –
Sweet medicine, Lazare Family
I read all four books in the series, was really impressed with the history, of this family.During battle, love , lust sin and forgiveness…in 1800sA must read.