Hortense Claviere had to get home to her cousin's chateau in the Vendée. Her father's last wish, before being guillotined, was that she should take the fortune in jewels that he had amassed to support the Royalist cause against the Republicans. In ...
After ten years in Paris under the protection of the elderly Marquis Philippe de Maupilier, Madeleine Vaubonne was well aware that she was mistakenly thought to be his mistress. Even so, it was a nasty surprise when Lucian de Valori, the Comte de Reg...