The English Heiress Author:Roberta gellis Half-French and half-English, Leonie de Conyers is caught in France during the Revolution. Her father murdered and she brutalized by rebel soldiers, she is saved however, by Englishman Roger St. Eyre, who was sent to find Leonie and her father when the man inherits a title and an estate. But the violence catches up with them and Roger and Leonie... more » are forced to remain in Paris under the pretense of siding with the Revolution. In the process, they become lovers, and then their position is compromised when they are swept away in a plot to free Marie Antoinette. In The English Heiress, Gellis bring the French Revolution to life in all its glory.« less