Books like Velvet by Jane Feather
Velvet whisks readers into the elegant yet perilous world of 19th‑century Europe. Gabrielle, a widowed French comtesse, cloaks herself in black velvet as she returns to England determined to ruin the man who killed her young lover. Adopting the role of a secret‑service agent, she infiltrates the political intrigues of the time. Yet her mission is complicated when the very man she hates—Nathaniel—draws her to a dangerous romance that forces her to weigh vengeance against love.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Jane Feather
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