**If you had to decide between passion and contentment, which would you choose?** In Victorian New York City, a young woman finds herself torn between two men. The respectable choice, Michael Bayley, is such an appropriate suitor, and when she is with him, she is a better woman. He is nothing like
The Elopement
β Scribed by Tracy Rees
- Book ID
- 111311016
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 340 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781529098648
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Tracy Rees's The Elopement is an elaborately imagined historical romance, full of delight and temptation, spanning the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England.
'A beautiful book. Powerful and captivating, the story will transport you to another time and place, plunging you headlong into the lives of its characters' - Hazel Prior, author of Away with the Penguins
A wealthy heiress . . .
1897. Rowena Blythe is wealthy, entitled and beautiful. As her twenty-fourth birthday approaches, sheβs expected to marry β and to marry well.
An unsuitable match . . .
Her parents commission a portrait of Rowena to help cement her reputation as a great society beauty. However, Bartek, the artistβs young assistant, is unlike any man Rowena has met before β wild, romantic and Bohemian. While society at large awaits the announcement of Rowenaβs engagement, it is Bartek who captures Rowenaβs heart along with her likeness.
A scandal in society . . .
Rowena knows her parents would never approve of Bartek, who in their eyes is nothing but a penniless foreigner. As her feelings grow, she has no-one to turn to. Dare she risk everything for love? M.F
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