With her upper-class breeding, her impeccable style and her father's bequest Angélique, keeping her true identity a secret, takes an unfamiliar and unimaginable path in setting up what becomes a highly successful business. Unable to secure employment without references or connections, Angélique desperately makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman cast out on the street and sees a possibility for her future. To survive, she will need all her resources - and one bold stroke of fortune. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. At eighteen she is her father's closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. A richly drawn, evocative historical novel set in nineteenth-century England and Paris, from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.Īngélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother.
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