num_pages: 386
description: True love crosses all boundaries in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putneys captivating historical romance in which a young countess flees revolutionary France for London becomes a maid learns about life downstairs and finds unexpected love.A countess turned servant... Forced to escape the French Revolution resilient young Comtesse Marie-Christine D'Estelle flees to London. But when she finds herself unexpectedly penniless Christa hides her aristocratic background to become a lady's maid... Until rebuffing advances from both her tyrannical mistresss husband and her lover gets Christa cast into the streetdirectly into a heros arms... A Royal Navy commander... After a long absence Captain Lord Alexander Kingsley has returned to England on medical leave. Now head of his family he must take charge of his younger siblings. He feels a special duty to his sister Annabelle a shy debutante in need of a maid. So Alex is delighted to discover that the intriguing outspoken and lovely young woman who serendipitously landed in his arms is in need of just such a position... The heart of a household... With her warmth charm and surprisingly refined intellect Christa soon wins the hearts of all the Kingsleysespecially Alex. And while their mutual attraction deepens to something more the gap in their social stations seems an impossible obstacle. Only when Alex and Annabelle become the targets of fortune hunters will the truth about Christa have a chance to be revealed. But will it mean a chance for true love to triumph?
language: English
title: Lady of Fortune
publisher: Zebra