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St. Martin's Press
August 2014
On Sale: July 29, 2014
480 pages
ISBN: 1250043891
EAN: 9781250043894
Kindle: B00HY03FJC
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Women's Fiction Historical | Historical | Literature and Fiction
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, is the
Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously
beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in
her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older
Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the
stifling formality of royal life on her private train or
yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a
horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and
the finest horseman in England. He is also impoverished,
with no hope of buying the horse needed to win the Grand
National—until he meets Charlotte Baird. A clever,
plainspoken heiress whose money gives her a choice among
suitors, Charlotte falls in love with Bay, the first man to
really notice her, for his vulnerability as well as his
glamour. When Sisi joins the legendary hunt organized by
Earl Spencer in England, Bay is asked to guide her on the
treacherous course. Their shared passion for riding leads to
an infatuation that jeopardizes the growing bond between Bay
and Charlotte, and threatens all of their
futures. The Fortune Hunter, a brilliant new
novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the
public lives and private longings of grand historical
figures.
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