**Inspired by Hortense de Beauharnais’s real-life autobiography with charming glimpses of life long ago, this is the story of a girl destined by fate to play a role she didn’t choose.“Even fans of historical fiction fascinated by the period will find plenty to appreciate here.”—Booklist**For Napoleon's step-daughter, nothing is simple—especially love.France, 1798—Fifteen-year-old Hortense is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic gir...

A passionate and powerful novel based on the scandalous life of the French novelist George Sand, her famous lovers, untraditional Parisian lifestyle, and bestselling novels in Paris during the 1830s and 40sThis major departure for bestseller Berg is for listeners of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilbert.George Sand was a 19th century French novelist known not only for her novels but even more for her scandalous behavior. After leaving her estranged husband, San...

A rich and sweeping novel of courage, duty, sacrifice, and love set during the French Revolution from New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki and her brother Owen PatakiThree years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with revolution. The citizens of France are enlivened by the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. The monarchy of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has been dismantled—with the help of the guillot...