Dawn - Large Print Author:Kate Alexander It comes as a great shock to Madeleine Ardingley to learn that her beloved father is a liar, a cheat and a dishonourable card-sharp. The innocent, convent-educated girl is swept into the sophisticated world of the Parisian demi-monde and finds it not to her liking, though it appears to the contemptuous eyes of her cousin Lord Janus Chilcot... more »e that she is very much her father's daughter.
Two years later and Madeleine is an orphan forced by poverty to appeal to the charity of the family she barely knows in the native country she has never visited. Both England and her Lorgan relations are utterly foreign to a girl born and brought up in France and she is no less strange and exotic to their new family; but Madeleine's quiet dignity and gentle manners soon win their affections.
The only cloud on the horizon is her new-found proximity to Janus, as cynical as ever and more knowing about her past than is comfortable. But when scandal follows her from France and throws her new life into turmoil, unexpectedly Madeleine discovers that her cold-hearted cousin is a truer friend than she had ever imagined ...« less