Here is a turbulent tale of love and betrayal, set against the savage glitter of a France just emerging from its revolutionary bloodbath. It is the story of the incredibly young and voluptuous Delphine, whose secret affair with a notorious American a...
She was wild and beautiful - like the Louisiana countryside where she had come to live. Not even her beloved Sheffield could tame Delphine. He had brought her from Paris - a bride eager to face a new world. But her outspoken French ideas shocked her ...
Against the backdrop of St. Petersburg in the wild, decadent years just before the revolution unfolds this towering novel of grand passions and spectacular moments - of men and women caught up in forbidden love and the savage destiny that lay in wait...