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This book is set during the French Revolution. From 1785 to 1793, we see the characters go from the regal courts of Paris to the exile of nobles to England and then back to France and the tragic and dark times of massacres and executions of nobility and royality, including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Against the raging fury of the French Revolution, this novel unfolds the dramatic story of Manon, passionately raped by a dashing stranger she can't forget. Now married to another, she remains in love with the memory--a memory whose very existence threatens her life...
