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300. A Knight in Paris
It’s 1802 in post-Revolution Paris, the heads may have stopped rolling, but the guillotine still casts a long and terrifying shadow over surviving members of the Aristocracy.
Not least the beautiful young Comtesse Lynetta de Marigny, hiding, terrified, in the bowels of the Château de Marigny, from its hateful new ‘owner’, who is bent on sending her, like her parents, to Madame Guillotine.
When the dashingly decadent Darril, Earl of Charncliffe, arrives at the Château to buy fine French furniture and objets d’art for his English country seat at the request of his new fiancée the ‘Incomparable Elaine Dale, he is instantly smitten by this delicate, terrified and helpless beauty. It seems his beloved Elaine is not so ‘incomparable’ after all.
The Earl is Lynetta’s Knight in Shining Armour as he smuggles her away, rolled up Cleopatra-like in a rug. Pursued by murderous revolutionaries, they make their escape posing as honeymooning newlyweds under the nose of Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
But secretly love struck Lynetta yearns for their swooning charade to be real and forever.
Not least the beautiful young Comtesse Lynetta de Marigny, hiding, terrified, in the bowels of the Château de Marigny, from its hateful new ‘owner’, who is bent on sending her, like her parents, to Madame Guillotine.
When the dashingly decadent Darril, Earl of Charncliffe, arrives at the Château to buy fine French furniture and objets d’art for his English country seat at the request of his new fiancée the ‘Incomparable Elaine Dale, he is instantly smitten by this delicate, terrified and helpless beauty. It seems his beloved Elaine is not so ‘incomparable’ after all.
The Earl is Lynetta’s Knight in Shining Armour as he smuggles her away, rolled up Cleopatra-like in a rug. Pursued by murderous revolutionaries, they make their escape posing as honeymooning newlyweds under the nose of Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
But secretly love struck Lynetta yearns for their swooning charade to be real and forever.
199 pages, Paperback
Published June 6, 2022
About the author
Barbara Cartland
1,352 books874 followersBorn in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
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November 19, 2022
Una historia apasionante de cómo Darill y Lynetta se conocen por pura casualidad, y se unen para tratar de escapar del peligro, sin saber, que caeran en las redes del amor
February 12, 2025
Historical Romance .Easy read
February 1, 2015
The proud and handsome Earl of Charncliffe, competing for the cool hand of a noble Incomparable, was off to Paris to do her bidding. But amid the treasures of a vanished aristocracy, the Earl discovered a wealth he'd never dreamed—in the shy loveliness of a young orphaned Comtesse. The Earl found the gentle, compelling power of fated hearts...just when he was pledged to another! Now that the miracle of true love was his at last, must he pay the precious price of honor?
June 29, 2010
Well, the usual BC fare with an Earl trying to win the affections of a woman and ending up in love with another instead...And let's not forget the requisite HEA.
September 1, 2010
Nice light read that requires no brain power. Enjoyable.
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