Alex and Eliza (Alex & Eliza Trilogy, #1)

by Melissa de la Cruz

[Steph L]

This was a great book that was a fictional imagination of the events that happened. It was the kind of book that was written in a way that you could feel like it was happening. It starts with Eliza and Alex meeting when they're younger at a party that her mother has and they dance. A time jump happens, and as Eliza is going to spend the winter with her aunt and uncle her carriage breaks down, and Alexander gives her a ride to Morristown NJ. As she is recovering Alex comes to see her. Eliza gets promised to Henry Livingston, a family friend, and brother of her best friend Kitty. Angelica also elopes with John Chruch, and Peggy is in love with their cousin.

Alex as Washington's Adi DeCamp has been gone for a while, and when he finds out that Eliza has been away for a while, and it does not go well when he comes back and sees that Eliza is now engaged. When Alex comes back on the night of Henry's engagement party there is an altercation between him and him which Eliza gets in the middle of. Alex goes to Albany where the Schuyler family lives, and he is not sure how gets there but he tells them what happened. Next, they go to Morristown where Eliza is, and Alex proposes to her and her parents are there. They get married, and they have a happy ending. For years Alex has loved Eliza, and now he has his happily ever after with her.