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, but 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 who fed her ambition and passion — but where was the one who could give her happiness…? Will she ever get her happy ending?
** Dazzling & glamorous...A compelling Heroine. A sweeping Plot...Sure to please fans of ''A Woman of Substance'' (Publishers Weekly)---Fr. Cvr.
- ISBN10 0417068808
- ISBN13 9780417068800
- Publish Date 11 November 1982 (first published 1 January 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Mandarin
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English