Dorothy Jordan

A bold Bonapartist escapes execution, hides as a servant, and finds love while navigating the treacherous world of royalist intrigue.

With her boozy boyfriend, the owner of a shabby dockside hotel scrimps and saves to give a child abandoned by her birth mother a life she never had.

In 16th-century Italy, a strict patriarch will not allow his daughter to marry the man she loves until her headstrong older sister gets married.