Mistaken Legacy - Book 1 - "Legends on the Rise Novel Series" by Leigh Rose
On a warm spring day in 1980, Paris, France, protagonist, Juliette Reiss-Marston, leaves her fiance, William Fournier, and sojourns to St. Augustine, Florida, in the USA.
The couple had just announced their engagement to marry, and Juliette had received a dowry from her parents. A few days later she receives a disturbing letter from Claude Freedman, Esq., a distant cousin she hadn't met.
In his letter, Claude reveals that her dowry is from a nefarious ancestor who wrote his memoir Children of the Alliance: 1754-1810. He invites Juliette to St. Augustine, Florida, to meet him and to pick up the memoir.
When Juliette arrives in "The Land of Flowers," she wrestles with why her parents had deceived her about her family's past during the colonial slave trade, and how their ancestor acquired her dowry...