01595cam a2200277 4500 299499608 TxAuBib 20170721120000.0 170202s2017||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781524781934 1524781932 (OCoLC)961156000 TxAuBib Steel, Danielle. The Duchess / Danielle Steel. First large print edition. New York : Random House Large Print Publishing, [2017] ℗2017. 427 pages ; 24 cm. Orphaned. Betrayed. Determined. England, 1820. Angélique Latham grew up in her magnificent country house, Belgrave Castle with her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally deny her very existence and send her out into the world alone. At eighteen, Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and an envelope of money her late father pressed upon her. Unable to secure employment, Angélique desperately makes her way to Paris. To survive, she will need all her resources – and one bold stroke of fortune. Angélique takes an unfamiliar and unimaginable path in setting up what becomes a highly successful business. But she lives on the edge of scandal; can she ever make a life for herself? 20170721. Aristocracy (Social Class) Fiction. Brothels Fiction. Paris (France) History 19th century Fiction. TXPLE