Danielle Steel- The Duchess


Early nineteenth-century England… a highborn young woman is forced out into the world—and begins a journey of survival, sensuality, and long-sought justice.Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father’s closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources—and one bold stroke of fortune.Unable to secure employment without references or connections, Angélique desperately makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam—and suddenly sees a possibility. She takes in abused French streetwalkers, transforming them into sought after courtesans in the city’s most exclusive bordello, Le Boudoir is only the beginning of her return to the upper reaches of society and ultimate justice.