-HISTORICAL FICTION AUTHOR-
CECLY ANN MITCHELL
SCOTLAND BAY THE RETURN
Catch up with the original cast of the novel 'Le Noireau'; Orleans, Guyston, Lucien, Florine, Winslow, Papa Roche, Rainer, and the descendants of Astral Le Noireau, as they return to the once sleepy fishing village on the north west peninsula of Trinidad in the Caribbean.
This nine book dual-timeline series gives life to the fulfillment of the dreams of their ancestors forty years after the evacuation of the village by American military servicemen.
The Legacy - Book 1
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For almost four decades, Rhys Le Noireau has been a man out of place, trying to fit together the jigsaw puzzle of his life.
When his mother Astral, is hospitalized in a coma, Rhys, a single successful architect, is tasked with cleaning out her home and setting her affairs in order.
The items he discovers hidden among his mother's treasured possessions, locked away in an ancient family Bible; a Deed, Birth certificates, old weathered photographs, and handwritten notes on snippets of parched paper, opens the portal to a life lived in another time and place.
A place that fits into his soul and forces Rhys to do the unthinkable, return to Scotland Bay.
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The Chateau on the Hill - Book 2
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Rhys Le Noireau is a conflicted man.
His mother Astral told him a lot of things, but she never told him that he was heir to a multi-billion dollar estate in the tiny Caribbean island of Trinidad.
While Astral lies comatose in a Washington DC facility, Rhys discovers, not only has he, as the last surviving Le Noireau male, inherited the estate but the codicil of his Great-grandfather's will is explicit. He must return to Trinidad and live in the Le Noireau Chateau in Scotland Bay. A village where no one has lived since 1941.
It has taken Annalise Roach a decade to finally get the attention of the man of her dreams.
As ‘Girl Friday’ to his mother, Astral Le Noireau, she has been there to comfort Rhys through his mother's illness and gently love him through life's storms.
Just when Annalise thinks she can relax and enjoy their relationship, the codicil in Jean Claude Le Noireau's will, surfaces, ripping away her chance of happiness, and taking Rhys on a perilous journey through churning Caribbean tides, that wash him and their relationship upon the rocky shores of Scotland Bay at the foot of the Chateau on the Hill.
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The Remous - Book 3
How could they tell her NO?
Renee Le Noireau is out in the cold, again and she is not pleased.
For the second time, the British trained solicitor has been denied an inheritance.
Her stuck-up, younger-by-two-minutes, twin brother, Rhys, has swept the pot, leaving her in a lonely-in-London predicament.
Until she gets that letter that puts her on a collision course with destiny.
Army Major, Louis Bouisguard, has spent a large part of his life listening to his parents argue over Astral and Orleans Le Noireau. The last thing he expected as Military attaché at the High Commission in London, was an encounter of his own with a Le Noireau.
He is sick of hearing the name.
Until Renee Le Noireau forces her way into his offices, hands akimbo, demanding a reason for being denied access to a family graveyard on restricted military property, in Trinidad. He quickly falls back on the memories of his parents and realizes he is not so sick of hearing about the Le Noireaus after all.
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Fire Dance - BooK 4
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Billionaire bank owner Rainer Mac Laine is close to completing his most important mission.
Marrying Astral le Noireau.
The retired US Navy Commander has searched for decades to find the woman who captured his heart while he was stationed in the Caribbean island of Trinidad.
Now he has found her, a patient in Washington DC recovering from a stroke and this Astral wants nothing to do with him.
Can he dance through the fire of her resistance and claim her love once more?
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The Macqueripe Beach Club - Book 6
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​*No one knew she sacrificed her love to save her island, until...*
Registered Nurse, Jacqueline Dorant never knew her great-aunt, Lady Emelay Samuel, the doyen of Trinidad's society in the 1940s.
When her grandmother dies, in1981, Jacqueline discovers a family secret that shatters her sense of being.
She needs help to sort out the mess into which she has stumbled.
Successful attorney Aubrey Roche has held his family together, bridging the gap between his parents and siblings and sacrificing his happiness for theirs.
He hasn't had time for relationships outside of the law practice which he shares with his father.
When fate propels Jacqueline Dorant into his path Aubrey is compelled to help the lonely immigrant unravel the mystery surrounding her ownership of The Macqueripe Beach Club and the role her aunt, Lady Emelay Samuel played in safeguarding the tiny Caribbean island of Trinidad from being run over by Nazis during the American military occupation of the Chaguaramas peninsula in World War 11.
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A Cocoa Panyol Christmas - Book 5
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*A death bed confession and a search for family.*
Francine Morchant is living through a nightmare in Guadeloupe. On the same day her beloved grandmother died, she is fired as Head Chocolatier at the island's sugar factory; and made homeless by her aunt because they are not blood-related. What can she do? Head south to Trinidad and fulfill a promise she made to her dying grandmother.
Anxious to get to his second 'home' in the USA, a snowstorm blanketing the Eastern coast has left, Desmond Roche sitting and waiting in the concourse at Piarco International airport. He does not want to return to the Le Noireau family home in St Clair for Christmas.
When he is asked to assist as a translator by local Immigration officers for a French-speaking deportee, Desmond is surprised to discover the confused woman, repeats the name of his client's sister Monsieur Renee Le Noireau.
He accepts liability for Francine Morchant and unwillingly returns to the Le Noireau family compound in St Clair with his French guest, resigned to spending Christmas in Trinidad.
The events that unfold as the inhabitants prepare for the holiday bring a new experience of the family to Francine, Desmond, and their host, Rhys.
They discover that blood is in fact thicker than water and a Cocoa Panyol Christmas, Parang, Pastelles, and picong with strangers, is all they need to create a family of their own.
Dame Lorraine - Book 7
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​Astral Le Noireau is finally at home in Scotland Bay, in her Chateau on the Hill where she can sit on the south balcony and watch the Remous tremble through the Bocas and fire dance across the evening sky at sunset.
Florine Bruce can do none of those things.
Reared in poverty at a Convent in rural Trinidad, Florine’s claim to the Le Noireau wealth has been ruthlessly swatted aside by the local courts and the status quo.
For decades she has lived in Astral Le Noireau’s shadow, seething while her dreams evaporate like mist rolling through Chaguaramas Valley at sunrise.
Florine knows who and what belongs to her and she will not be denied her rightful place at the Le Noireau table.
She is a Dame Lorraine, a perfect mimic of French creole plantocracy who gorged on the fruits of her labour and left her hungry and wanting.
The masks come off as descendants of Lisette and Jean Louis Le Noireau square off in this penultimate duel in Scotland Bay.
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The Midnight Robber - Book 8
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*His lifelong thirst for revenge, comes to an explosive end.*
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Every move Lucian Bouisguard made to destroy the Le Noireau family has been thwarted by fate and time.
Forty years.
How is it possible that one family can steal his ancestral land, ruin his good name, be implicated in the disappearance of his beloved wife, and not face any consequences?
Police Commissioner or not, he will have his revenge.
Astral Le Noireau is home, in her Chateau, in the sleepy seaside village of Scotland Bay, enjoying life with her American husband as they blissfully prepare to welcome her first grandchild.
What can go wrong?
The Midnight Robber, the harbinger of death is on his way to Scotland Bay.
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Petit Careme - Book 9
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*A savage and deadly struggle that began in the womb will end on the shores of Scotland Bay.*
Renee Le Noireau is still searching for her place within the Le Noireau family.
Isolated due to her relationship with the Bouisguard family, she has lost everything. There will be no Le Noireau millions for her. The actions of Louis's father and mother caused that ship to sail. She is cut off from her mother's wealth and her newly found father's estate.
What's a girl to do?
Rhys Le Noireau has come full circle. He has settled into the lifestyle his great grandfather envisioned for him and into the comforts of the Chateau on the hill on the family's compound in Scotland Bay with his wife Annalise, their infant son, and his mother, Astral, and his father.
He has done everything Jean Claude wanted, except, there is someone missing at the family table and her absence is creating a hole in his heart and pain in his chest.
How does he reconcile with his sister?