Hello, dear readers! I've got another Bookshelf Cleaning Giveaway for you and this time up for grabs is a trio of fabulous HF
novels! I've read and LOVED all three books, but due to an oversight I received double copies of each, so I am spreading the love to you!
When you enter to win please let me know which title you are interested in, you can choose all three if you like!
Here are the books included in the giveaway, their formats and condition:
For the King by Catherine Delors - Hardcover, finished copy, perfect condition
About the Books
by C.W. Gortner
SYNOPSIS: The truth is, not one of us is innocent. We all have sins to confess.
So reveals Catherine de Medici, the last legitimate descendant of her
family’s illustrious line. Expelled from her native Florence, Catherine
is betrothed to Henri, son of François I of France. In an unfamiliar
realm, Catherine strives to create a role for herself through her
patronage of the famous clairvoyant Nostradamus and her own innate gift
as a seer. But in her fortieth year, Catherine is widowed, left alone
with six young children in a kingdom torn apart by the ambitions of a
treacherous nobility. Relying on her tenacity, wit, and uncanny gift for
compromise, Catherine seizes power, intent on securing the throne for
her sons, unaware that if she is to save France, she may have to
sacrifice her ideals, her reputation, and the secret of her embattled
heart.
by Catherine Delors
SYNOPSIS: From the author
of the critically acclaimed Mistress of the Revolution comes a
spellbinding historical thriller set in post- revolutionary Paris.
For her first novel, Mistress of the Revolution,
which the Associated Press dubbed one of the "best reads of the year,"
Catherine Delors earned comparisons to Tracy Chevalier and Philippa
Gregory. In For the King, she again demonstrates her matchless
ability to illuminate key turning points in history while weaving a
gripping story about a man caught between his heart and his integrity.
The Reign of Terror has ended, and Napoléon Bonaparte has seized power,
but shifting political loyalties still tear apart families and lovers.
On Christmas Eve 1800, a bomb explodes along Bonaparte's route, narrowly
missing him but striking dozens of bystanders. Chief Inspector Roch
Miquel, a young policeman with a bright future and a beautiful mistress,
must arrest the assassins before they attack again. Complicating
Miquel's investigation are the maneuverings of his superior, the
redoubtable Fouché, the indiscretions of his own father, a former
Jacobin, and two intriguing women.
Based on real events and
characters and rich with historical detail, For the King takes
readers through the dark alleys and glittering salons of
post-revolutionary Paris and is a timeless epic of love, betrayal, and
redemption.
by Stephanie Cowell
SYNOPSIS: Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she
would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only
cool paint met his fingers. “Ma très chère . . .” Darkness started to
fall, dimming the paintings. He felt the crumpled letter in his pocket.
“I loved you so,” he said. “I never would have had it turn out as it
did. You were with all of us when we began, you gave us courage. These
gardens at Giverny are for you but I’m old and you’re forever young and
will never see them. . . .”
In the mid-nineteenth
century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather
endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s
nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his
father’s will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to
create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the
time, he set off for Paris.
But once there he is confronted with
obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme
poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But
there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men
named Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet – a group that together would
come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other
through the difficult years. But even more illuminating was his lifelong
love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who
threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter
and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time.
His muse,
his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two
children, Camille stayed with Monet—and believed in his work—even as
they lived in wretched rooms, were sometimes kicked out of those, and
often suffered the indignities of destitution. She comforted him during
his frequent emotional torments, even when he would leave her for long
periods to go off on his own to paint in the countryside.
But
Camille had her own demons – secrets that Monet could never penetrate,
including one that when eventually revealed would pain him so deeply
that he would never fully recover from its impact. For though Camille
never once stopped loving the painter with her entire being, she was not
immune to the loneliness that often came with being his partner.
A
vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the
artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above
all a love story of the highest romantic order.
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Giveaway ends on November 28th.
