What happens when a daughter's dream and a mother's sordid past collide? New York, 1910. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie and her French-immigrant mother Justine eke out a living doing piecework in a tenement on the Lower East Side, while Sylvie attends school so that she can escape their life of poverty
The Courtesan's Daughter
โ Scribed by Elizabeth Reed
- Book ID
- 111114380
- Publisher
- Elizabeth Reed
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 10 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781310948367
- ASIN
- B018TOPLYS
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
This is a steamy historical romance short story (word count 4,793).Caroline Baxter is not completely oblivious to the fact that Jeremy Clifford is attracted to her. However as a Courtesan's daughter she is not naive to how people and society, in general, may perceive her, for that reason she is always careful to guard her thoughts and feelings carefully.But Jeremy is proving very persistent in trying to win her over. If only she could find a way to see into his heart and understand his true intentions towards her.....perhaps then she could allow herself to act on her own inner desire!
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