num_pages: 662
description: Europe 1920s. Fifth [published] in the Saint-Germain series, Tempting Fate finds the count as guardian to a Russian war orphan during the Russian Revolution and the end of World War I. As he travels across Europe with his adopted daughter, he encounters three women -- all of whom will alter his tormented destiny: a duchess who will lead him into fateful temptation, a young widow who plunges him into an abyss of corruption and obsessive desire, and Madeline de Montalia -- the women for whom Saint-Germain will risk eternity to protect. Driven by his insatiable need for this woman who shares his terrible secret, Saint-Germain will commit a final, desperate act that could doom the lovers to a world of everlasting damnation.
language: English
title: Tempting Fate
titlecomplete: Tempting Fate (Saint-Germain, #5)
characters: Gudrun Maria Altbrunnen Ostneige, Madelaine Roxanne Bertrande de Montalia, Laisha Vlassevna, James Emmerson Tree, Irina Andreivna Ohchenov
genres: Paranormal, Historical, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Vampires, Romance, Historical Fiction, Supernatural, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 454
series: Saint-Germain
publisher: Signet