Rosalind Laker
ASIN: B01M59Q50V
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 489
Successful in life but not love… Louise Vernet was raised in the slums of Paris, coming of age amid the splendor and corruption of the Second Empire. She ruled the world of fashion, clothing the most fabled women of title and pleasure in a society where even sin had to have style. Pierre de Gand, godson of the Emperor himself, taught Louise Vernet what it was to love and be loved. But it was all destroyed in a shattering act of betrayal. Robert Prestbury, an Englishman who claimed to be a gentleman, lured Louise into a Victorian marriage. It was a union that trapped her like a vice as he used her for his profit and tormented her for his pleasure. Will Russell nurtured Louise’s genius and offered her the financial backing that made her fortune. It wasn’t long before her debt to him mounted beyond what she could pay without gambling her heart. There were many men in Louise Vernet’s life ...