In Golden Era
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Being an Account of Love, Intrigue, and the Shadows That Stir Beneath the Silken Veil of Nobility.
Lady Anneliese De Vere, the porcelain jewel of Cambridgeshire, is wedded by decree to the enigmatic Marquess Nathaniel Stratford, heir to a house long disgraced. But behind the gilded halls and silken vows lies a world of secrets-where loyalty is a currency, and love a most perilous game.
Is their union salvation-or undoing? Shall love, so fragile and forbidden, survive the machinations of those who would see it broken? Or shall it be lost, like so many truths, to the ashes of a golden era?
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