A night train out of Petersburg carries a slight, intense young stranger toward Paris, where the newcomer takes the name Max and drifts into the studio life of the Latin Quarter. Edward Blake, a dissolute Irish painter, takes the gifted boy under his wing, never guessing that his protégé is a woman running from her rank and her past.
An Edwardian romance of disguise and artistic ambition from the author of The Masquerader, published the year before her early death. Download the free EPUB.