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The Chevalier
The Chevalier
The Chevalier
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Emmanuel, Chevalier de Cantière, youngest son of a baron, is happiest raising horses far from his complicated family. When news comes his mother is deathly ill, he races to her side only to find she has apparently recovered and moved on, leaving behind her companion, Catherine. Catherine de Fouet blends into the background, saving up so she’ll never have to wait on waspish, scheming old ladies like the baronesse again. She has no interest in a resentful gentleman, estranged from his mother, no matter how broad his shoulders or intriguing the wounded soul behind his handsome face. She just needs someone to escort her back to Versailles. But Catherine is suspected of poisoning the baronesse. She rebuffs a pushy courtier who tries to use blackmail to make her his mistress, and her reputation hangs by a thread. The chevalier wants more than anything to protect this woman whose prickly exterior hides sweetness and passion. They need his family to help him through court intrigues—almost as much as they need each other.
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Release dateSep 7, 2016
ISBN9781509208111
The Chevalier
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Philippa Lodge

Philippa Lodge has been an avid reader since she asked her mother to point out where it said “Ma” in Little House in the Big Woods. She read everything she could get her hands on, with an emphasis on mysteries, until grad school in French Studies, with an emphasis on seventeenth century. After that, she lost her reading mojo. Only through the twin discoveries of Harry Potter and romance has she gotten her groove back. So it seems natural that she has turned to writing paranormal romances, sometimes with suspense. And toss in some French historicals, set in the time of Louis XIV and we pretty much cover everything. If they were set in the Big Woods, she'd have come full circle. She lives in the suburbs of Sacramento, CA with her husband, three children, and a head full of ghosts, werewolves, and courtesans. She edits the bi-monthly newsletter for her local chapter of the Romance Writers of America.

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