No Escape from Love

✍ Scribed by Cartland, Barbara

• Book ID: 110462380
• Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Series: Eternal 33
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781782131496

✦ Synopsis

When the Armistice between France and England came to an end in 1803, Napoleon interned ten thousand British tourists who were in France at that time. Most of these tourists had committed no crime and had simply been travelling when captured.

Many, to save being arrested went into hiding, among them the widow and daughter of Sir Edward Waltham, who had died that winter.

A year later, plunged into poverty and the seedier side of Paris life, beautiful Vernita Waltham is keeping her sick mother precariously alive on the money she obtains from making exquisitely embroidered lingerie for a famous shop that supplies Napoleon's sister, Her Imperial Highness Princess Pauline Borghese.

Vernita discovers the shop is cheating and desperate to raise money for food and medicine, decides to approach the Princess directly with a negligee she has just finished, disguised as a petite bourgeoisie.

Extravagant and self-obsessed, Princess Pauline is enchanted with Vernita's skills as a...