num_pages: 495
description: The Story of a PrincessWho Loses Her Fortune-and Finds HerselfShe was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy, Daisy of the silver-gilt hair and the black eyes, daughter of Prince Stash Valensky, the White Russian polo player and hero of the Battle of Britain, and his wife, the lyrically romantic American film star, Francesca Vernon-no child could have had a happier future.But for the Secret...The secret that ripped apart the fabric of their splendid world, the secret as binding as the strongest taboo, the secret that Daisy would learn to keep from earliest childhood. The secret shadowed her life even as she grew up in the heart of London's aristocratic Belgravia; even as she visited the enchanted manoir in Normandy that belonged to Anabel, her father's mistress and the last of the great courtesans; even as she fled the furious obsession of her half-brother, Ram, to spend a few glorious years in California.Always the Secret Existed...The longer Daisy kept it the more binding it became. Even after Daisy and Kiki, her best friend, the irrepressibly ribald heiress to an automobile fortune, made their home in SoHo, Manhattan's new Bohemia, even while Daisy worked as a producer in the manic and magic world of television commercial makers...she kept the secret.Daisy fights for independence and survival in a world in which North, her fiery, demanding boss expects her to cope with a dozen crises an hour; a world in which Patrick Shannon, the self-made, dynamic head of a major conglomerate, has his own plans for Daisy and believes that even she has her price; a world in which Robin and Vanessa Valarian, consummate players in the game of fashion, need Daisy for their own purposes and will hesitate at nothing to exploit her.Until...Poised on the brink of her own worldwide fame, Daisy allows love into her innermost heart and finds the trust to yield up her lifetime burden and find the one thing that has always eluded her...the freedom to face the truth and to become herself.This romantic dream of a novel transports us from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the Venice of today; from the closely guarded enclaves of the Virginia Hunt County to the elegance of the great homes of England. The utterly compelling story blends the wonder of once-upon-a-time with the pulse of the here-and-now and, in Daisy, creates an ultimate heroine.
language: English
title: Princess Daisy
titlecomplete: Princess Daisy
genres: Historical, Drama, Contemporary, Womens Fiction, Historical Fiction, Chick Lit, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary Romance, Romance
ratings_count: 4485
publisher: Crown