The Troika Belle Author:Ira J. Morris "Tell me, Sir, who is that fascinating young woman over there talking with M. de Talleyrand?" — Thus did handsome rakehell Sacha Arloff discover that his once-drab little emigre companion, his waif Lise, had blossomed into an international beauty. — It all began when Sacha was banished to his estates by the Tsar and drunkenly tried to decide which... more » of his mistresses to take with him. Much to his horror he found he had brought none of them. Instead, it was Lise who sat beside him. Lise, his father's ward. A poor French refugee - half child, half woman.
But Lise began to grow up. And when Sacha tried to ignore this, Lise planned her revenge - a revenge that was to shake the glittering courts of Europe from London to St. Petersburg.
THE TROIKA BELLE--an enchanting novel of love, and adventure in the wild and exciting Imperial Russia of 1812, in Regency London, and at the grand Court of Vienna.« less