Lovers — Suzanne Goodwin

A romantic historical novel set in the 1920s against a background of theatre in London and Paris.

Nellie was born in the slums of London, and Earl Robert was born into a noble and ancient family of the realm. Nellie gets a job in a luxurious London brothel, and they met by chance, and witnessed the killing scandal that shook Society. Banished to bohemian Paris they fell in love. The legacy of his ancestors proved too strong. Edwardian England, family honour and crumbling stately home awaited and so did a stunning American heiress. Their passionate affair is ended when he marries Alice. All she had left was ambition that made her the darling of the London stage and she became known to princes, poets, queens and courtiers. They were destined to meet again to share a secret that only lovers can know.