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Lady of fortune [LP]

"To escape the French Revolution, Comtesse Marie-Christine d'Estelle flees to London. But when she finds herself penniless, Christa hides her aristocratic background to become a lady's maid. Rebuffing advances from her mistress's husband gets Christa cast into the street--directl...

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Main Author: Putney, Mary Jo (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
Edition: Large print edition
Subjects:
Lady's maids > Fiction.
Social classes > England > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Nobility > Fiction.
London (England) > History > 18th century > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > 1789-1820 > Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Novels of manners.
Historical fiction.
Large print books.
Summary: "To escape the French Revolution, Comtesse Marie-Christine d'Estelle flees to London. But when she finds herself penniless, Christa hides her aristocratic background to become a lady's maid. Rebuffing advances from her mistress's husband gets Christa cast into the street--directly into a hero's arms. Captain Lord Alexander Kingsley must take charge of his sister Annabelle, a debutante in need of a maid. Alex is delighted to discover that the woman who landed in his arms is in need of just such a position. Only when Alex and Annabelle become the targets of fortune hunters will the truth about Christa be revealed. But will it mean a chance for tru love to triumph?"--
Physical Description: 567 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9798885786324
Author Notes: Romance writer Mary Jo Putney was born in New York and graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in English literature and Industrial design. She served as the art editor of The New Internationalist magazine in London and worked as a designer in California before settling in Baltimore, Maryland in 1980 to run her own freelance graphic design business Her first novel was a traditional Regency romance, which sold in one week. Signet liked the novel so much that it offered Putney a three-book contract. In 1987 that first novel, The Diabolical Baron, was published. Since then, she has published more than twenty-nine books. Her books have been ranked on the national bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Most of her books have been historical romance. She has also begun writing fantasy romance and romantic fantasy. Putney has won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award twice, for Dancing on the Wind and The Rake and the Reformer and has been a RITA finalist nine times. She is on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll for bestselling authors, and has been awarded two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards and four Golden Leaf Awards. Her titles include: Dark Mirror, Dark Passage, No Longer a Gentleman, Never Less than a Lady, and Nowhere Near Respectable.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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