At a banquet in the court of Louis XV, where Madame de Pompadour holds the real power, a jest among the king’s favourites sets an intrigue in motion that will destroy a young woman’s reputation. The plot winds through Versailles politics and the cause of the exiled Young Pretender, and a wronged girl’s long road to justice.
Costume romance by the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel, full of eighteenth-century glitter. Download the free EPUB.