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Duchess by Danielle Steel6/2/2023 ![]() To survive, she will need all her resources - and one bold stroke of fortune.Unable to secure employment without references or connections, Angelique desperately makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam - and suddenly sees a possibility: open an elegant house of pleasure that will protect its women and serve only the best clients. Angelique 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() The incomparable Danielle Steel breaks new ground as she takes us to nineteenth-century England, where a high-born young woman is forced out into the world - and begins a journey of survival, sensuality and long-sought justice.Angelique 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. Featuring an exclusive foreword by the author. ![]()
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