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Emmeline Nevada Holtz, the sheltered heiress of America’s wealthiest family, is betrothed to an English duke. After her chaperone’s accident leaves her alone in Paris, she seizes the chance to experience life beyond her gilded cage. Emmeline’s adventures take her into Paris’s most dissolute pleasure palaces and into circles where respectability masks horror, ultimately drawing her into the arms of Pierre, an artist who becomes the man she will truly love.
First publish date: April 23, 1979
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Barbara Cartland
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