Author: sandragulland

For Napoleon’s stepdaughter, nothing is simple — especially love.Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music, read and paint, and daydream about Christophe, her brother’s dashing fellow officer. But Hortense … officer. But Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming mother Josephine has married Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to become the most powerful man in France, but viewed by Hortense as a coarse, unworthy successor to her elegant father,…

When young Claudette becomes a confidante to Louis XIV’s mistress, she falls headlong into Versailles’ dizzying web of intrigue and scandal… From an internationally bestselling author, this spellbinding novel is “an epic feast for the senses” (New York Times bestselling author Melanie Benjamin).