num_pages: 469
description: Successful in life but not love... Louise Vernet was raised in the slums of Paris, coming of age amid the splendor and corruption of the Second Empire. — She ruled the world of fashion, clothing the most fabled women of title and pleasure in a society where even sin had to have style. — Pierre de Gand, godson of the Emperor himself, taught Louise Vernet what it was to love and be loved.But it was all destroyed in a shattering act of betrayal.Robert Prestbury, an Englishman who claimed to be a gentleman, lured Louise into a Victorian marriage.It was a union that trapped her like a vice as he used her for his profit and tormented her for his pleasure.Will Russell nurtured Louise’s genius and offered her the financial backing that made her fortune.It wasn’t long before her debt to him mounted beyond what she could pay without gambling her heart.There were many men in Louise Vernet’s life who fed her ambition and passion -- but where was the one who could give her happiness...?Will she ever get her happy ending?
language: English
title: Banners of Silk
titlecomplete: Banners of Silk
genres: Romance, Victorian, Historical Romance, Fashion, Drama, Historical, Fiction, France, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 474
publisher: Doubleday