
A woman infiltrates the home of the man she vowed to ruin for killing her brother, only to fall in love amid the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
A woman infiltrates the home of the man she vowed to ruin for killing her brother, only to fall in love amid the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
Adèle was very lovely and a veritable tower of greed and egotism. The Marnys were rich and the little Vicomte very young; and just now the brightly-plumaged hawk was busy plucking the latest pigeon- newly arrived from its ancestral cote.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
will contain mild spoilers
Central chaste romance with attraction and emotional intimacy; period-appropriate
Duel death, revolutionary executions, and peril during the Reign of Terror
No profanity present
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No magic or witchcraft present
No occult content present
French Revolution and class conflict form the story's historical backdrop
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Brother's death in a duel; revolutionary persecution of aristocrats
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