When I first read the description of this story I had the smarts not to read anyone else's review. I enjoyed what I read beforehand and I didn't want other people to tarnish my opinion. I think if I had read someone's less-than-five-star review, I would not have considered reading the book. An...
As far as epic stories go, this story of Versailles at its height of glory was such a great read. Starting with Versailles as nothing more than a hunting lodge, being built and expanded, we come to be attached with the first daughter, Marguerite. Her life unfolds with love and tragedy, followed...
Rosalind Laker is fast becoming one of my favorite historical fiction authors. I have also read her novel The House by the Fjord and I just started two others, To Dream of Snowand This Shining Land.The Venetian Mask tells the story of two friends, Marietta and Elena, who grow up together in the O...
Silver Touch by Rosalind LakerFollow the life of a woman, Ester who loses her parents and she has to go live with a relative who run a tavern and she learns the trade.She meets up with a married man, John Bateman and ends up having his child. They move and live together. His trade is a silversmit...
synopsis:marguerite is a fine seamstress and asked to travel to russia with others of her choosing to work on gowns for the imperial court. marguerite leaves because her husband/fiance? has been killed, and there is nothing keeping her in france. once in russia, she meets an art dealer, simon and...
New World, New Love is the story of Louise de Vailly, a refugee from the French Revolution, as she arrives in New York with her sister Delphine. Although recently widowed, her marriage had not been a happy one and Louise is ready to strike out on her own and establish her independence, but self-c...