Crown of Desire Author:Marjorie DeBoer As Paris became a battleground for the crowned heads of Europe, beautiful Daphne de Monceau, daughter of one of the most powerful families in Napoleon's faltering Second Empire, was caught up in a struggle that would change her world forever. — Pledged to another, Daphne fell helplessly in love with a handsome Algerian cavalry captain. Though... more » she feared she would never be permitted to marry the man she desired, Daphne knew she would love him forever.
Then her lover was accused of a crime Daphne could not ignore, and she found her loyalties divided between her family and the man who owned her heart!« less