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City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier - Melika Dannese Lux
City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier
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What would you risk for the love of a stranger? Ilyse Charpentier, a beautiful young chanteuse, is the diva of the 1894 Parisian cabaret scene by night and the unwilling obsession of her patron, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, at every other waking moment. Though it has always been her secret desire,... show more
What would you risk for the love of a stranger? Ilyse Charpentier, a beautiful young chanteuse, is the diva of the 1894 Parisian cabaret scene by night and the unwilling obsession of her patron, Count Sergei Rakmanovich, at every other waking moment. Though it has always been her secret desire, Ilyse's life as "La Petite Coquette" of the Paris stage has turned out to be anything but the glamorous existence she had dreamt of as a girl. As a young woman, Ilyse has already suffered tragedy and become estranged from her beloved brother, Maurice, who blames her for allowing the Count to drive them apart.Unhappy and alone, Ilyse forces herself to banish all thoughts of independence until the night Ian McCarthy waltzes into her life. Immediately taken with the bold, young, British expatriate, Ilyse knows it is time to choose: will she break free and follow her heart or will she remain a slave to her patron's jealous wrath for the rest of her life?
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780615708263 (0615708269)
Publisher: Books In My Belfry, LLC
Pages no: 166
Edition language: English
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This 156-page novel harkens back to the Victorian potboiler and 19th century penny dreadful: the characters are a bit predictable and the plot is breakneck, and that's where the pleasure of this book comes from -- you know what you're going to get, and it's fluffy, junky fun.Set in 1894, the novel f...
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