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While escorting diplomatic news of Napoleon’s advance on Moscow to St. Petersburg, the handsome Duke of Welminster finds his focus diverted from politics to romance. Invited to the home of an old friend, Princess Sonia, he faces a proposal that his presence might secure a marriage for her daughter, Tania. However, as Tania dances nearby, it is the enigmatic Zoia—whose mother suffered disgrace and whose French musician father remains in threatened Moscow—who captures the Duke’s true attention. The Duke, suddenly under her spell, embarks on a passionate affair that challenges his duties and the expectations of the aristocracy amid a period of war.
First publish date: 1979
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Barbara Cartland
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