title: The Courtesan's Daughter
author: Talbert, Linda Lee
description: A young French actress. A reserved English lord. Can passion survive secrets and lies? In 1884, Mademoiselle Colette Chartier, a gifted actress at the Com©die-Fran§aise, travels alone to London to perform at the Savoy Theater. To shield herself from the English aristocrats’ condemnation, Colette conceals her identity as the illegitimate daughter of a notorious Parisian courtesan. But when she meets the aloof Lord Jonathan Thackeray, who harbors a secret of his own, she learns first-hand about love based upon a lie. Can Colette experience the indescribable happiness for which her heart yearns? Will she get to marry the man she loves and become a member of the Thackeray family? Or will Colette be forced to be like her mother, a woman alone in the world who has to depend upon her beauty and talent and wits to survive?