Elizabeth Pye

A native, of Virginia, Elizabeth Pye has a keen interest in history—about how people and locations have intertwined throughout time to produce the tapestry of the present, as we know it. During her travels throughout Europe, Elizabeth developed an affinity for French history of all periods, with a special interest in the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries that lead to her French-Connection Series novels.

Elizabeth received her B.A degree in Behavioral Sciences from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and her M.P.A.  from California State University.

When not engaged in writing novels or poetry from her California home, Elizabeth enjoys planning and assembling miniature (scale 1:12) period room boxes, gardening, reading, family time at the time share in Laguna Beach, and traveling.
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She is an active member of the Romance Writers of America and the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club.

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published Books

French Connection series
The main characters follows the de Fleury and de Laval families from various times in  the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. 
Silk or Sugar  The story of a love so powerful it defeats the great General, Napoleon Bonaparte. When Janine de Fleury sails from New Orleans in 1803 to reclaim her dead parents's estate-- confiscated during the early days of the French Revolution-- she discovers an impostor has taken possession of her ancestral home. In an attempt to regain her inheritance, she must rely on someone for whom she holds a deep and secret affection, Etienne Tremeau. He is not of her class. While growing up he was merely a worker at Chateau Fleury. but when the French Revolution threatened her life, Etienne helped her escape the Reign of Terror. Now he is a soldier in the service of Napoleon, and while he and Janine are emotionally drawn to each other, dark forces conspire to keep them apart.
Return to Chateau Fleury  Over two hundred years after the French Revolution, a locket and a diary lure American Claire Bennett back to Paris, the site of her disturbing visions at the infamous Conciergerie prison.
Both Queen Marie Antoinette and Claire's ancestor, Marquise Marie de Fleury, were held at the dreaded facility before being sentenced to the guillotine.
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After the atrocious political murders, an impostor reclaimed Claire's ancestral home on behalf of the de Fleury family, Claire's need to investigate the French records and write the final entry in the diary drives her into a world filled with intrigue and danger.
 
She seeks counsel from an unforgettable, breathtakingly handsome attorney, Marc-Claude Laval, only to discover he is a cousin of the impostor's descendants. He holds the key, but will he help her unlock the truth.
Mon Amour, Friend or Foe  It is 1939 and eighteen-year-old American Paulette Rousseau arrives in Paris to study at the Sorbonne and to pursue an independent and happier future away from her self-absorbed parents. Her prayers appear answered when handsome and charismatic Guy de Laval invites her to join a chemistry study group he tutors.But when Guy asks her to join the French Resistance in May of 1940, she questions whether she can live up to his expectations; but if she wants to garner his respect and love she feels she must accept. Her work takes her to the American hospital to nurse injured Allied airmen, and later to Guy's safe house to harbor airmen and others while Guy is away weeks at a time on secret missions.

When she is arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis during Guy's absence, she begins to doubt his motives while she suffers brutal treatment, near starvation, and fears for her life. She loses all hope until smitten German Colonel Lorenz Dietrich releases her with a dire warning that de Laval is not what he seems and is exploiting her infatuation, rather, he, Lorenz,is the one who  cares for her.

Is Paulette's love for and instinct to trust Guy enough protection from the dark forces that surround her. 
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