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French Leave
GIVING UP ON LOVE IS MORE DIFFICULT THAN IT SOUNDS!
Barbary is just about finished with men. First, her scoundrel of a husband, Conor, runs off with an opera dancer. Then her own special friend jilts her for marriage to another.
With a broken heart and debts to the skies, Barbary heads for the safety of Paris, hoping that her lookalike cousin Mab can protect her from life's shocking reverses.
Unfortunately, Mab has a storm of troubles of her own, including an insistent duke and a passion for Napoleonic politics. And Barbary's presence only worsens a very sticky situation. When the cousins are mistaken for one another and unwittingly aid the Revolution, the police are brought in! Life had never been so maddening - especially when the men they feared were gone forever reappear with love very much on their minds....
Barbary is just about finished with men. First, her scoundrel of a husband, Conor, runs off with an opera dancer. Then her own special friend jilts her for marriage to another.
With a broken heart and debts to the skies, Barbary heads for the safety of Paris, hoping that her lookalike cousin Mab can protect her from life's shocking reverses.
Unfortunately, Mab has a storm of troubles of her own, including an insistent duke and a passion for Napoleonic politics. And Barbary's presence only worsens a very sticky situation. When the cousins are mistaken for one another and unwittingly aid the Revolution, the police are brought in! Life had never been so maddening - especially when the men they feared were gone forever reappear with love very much on their minds....
200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 12, 1988
About the author
Maggie Mackeever
47 books31 followersEver since I learned to read, I have loved books.
For almost as long, I have made up tales.
I’ve written horrible poetry, better short stories, adequate commercials, educational and industrial film narration, and very forgettable screenplays. Once I learned how to make a story last longer than a few paragraphs I moved on to novels, and there I stayed. I've written forty-three to date.
In addition to my website, I have a (sporadic) blog at http://maggiemackeever.wordpress.com/
For almost as long, I have made up tales.
I’ve written horrible poetry, better short stories, adequate commercials, educational and industrial film narration, and very forgettable screenplays. Once I learned how to make a story last longer than a few paragraphs I moved on to novels, and there I stayed. I've written forty-three to date.
In addition to my website, I have a (sporadic) blog at http://maggiemackeever.wordpress.com/
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April 21, 2012
Don't treat this as a usual regency romance. The dialogue isn't that good and there isn't any sexual tension between the main characters. Think of it as a light farce set in regency France and you'll enjoy it a lot more. Don't probe into who/what/when/where/why because the answers aren't provided, so you'll feel a bit letdown in the plot department. In the end, like Barbary's poor overworked manservant, Tibble, but you'll be glad its done and you get to go home.
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Barbary, estranged wife, flees to Paris, escaping creditors. Through poor passwards, receives papers from Jacobite, arrives at apartment of lookalike cousin, Mab, just as Mab knocks Duc unconscious to fend off advances. Barbary meets husband, impersonating Mab, renews relations. Duc wakes, lost memory, Mab concocts story, passes Barbary's papers to real Jacobite, gets shot. Separate police come looking for Jacobites and Duc, Barbary impersonating Mab, throws off police until real Jacobite arrives. Fighting ensures. Duc, faked memory loss, proposes to Mab. Conor falls back in love with Barbary, whose father secretly withheld separation funds hoping Barbary would return to Conor.
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Barbary, estranged wife, flees to Paris, escaping creditors. Through poor passwards, receives papers from Jacobite, arrives at apartment of lookalike cousin, Mab, just as Mab knocks Duc unconscious to fend off advances. Barbary meets husband, impersonating Mab, renews relations. Duc wakes, lost memory, Mab concocts story, passes Barbary's papers to real Jacobite, gets shot. Separate police come looking for Jacobites and Duc, Barbary impersonating Mab, throws off police until real Jacobite arrives. Fighting ensures. Duc, faked memory loss, proposes to Mab. Conor falls back in love with Barbary, whose father secretly withheld separation funds hoping Barbary would return to Conor.
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