Rosalind Laker, Author . Three Rivers Press $14.95 (564p) ISBN 978-0-307-35257-6
Love, tulips, painting, Dutch patriotism and the dynamics of personal and political power inform Laker's sprawling saga, set in Holland during the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer (both of whom serve as secondary characters). Francesca is the...
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-385-23745-1
Based on the true story of Hester Bateman, an indomitable 18th century English silversmith, this novel by the veteran author of historical romance compassionately chronicles her life from age 12 to 83, as well as the triumphs and catastrophes...
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-385-23193-0
In Lyons during Napoleon's era, young, beautiful Gabrielle Roche is traveling to marry Emile Valmont when by chance she encounters handsome, virile Nicholas Levaux, the son of her family's rival in the silk trade. The two instantly fall in love, but
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (564p) ISBN 978-0-385-24273-8
Her storytelling skills displayed with panache in this captivating historical novel, British author Laker ( The Silver Touch ) should gain an appreciative audience here. Set during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XVI, the sweeping saga takes place
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $22.5 (370p) ISBN 978-0-385-46826-8
Seventeen well-written and thoroughly researched historical novels (most recently, The Venetian Mask ) have come from English writer Laker's pen; in each she gives her heroine a talent or trade which can be described in fascinating detail. Here,...
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (519p) ISBN 978-0-385-26305-4
As British writer Laker's To Dance with Kings illuminated court life in Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV, her latest work strikingly depicts 17th- and 18th-century England during the Cromwell interregnum and the Restoration. And as her...
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $20 (585p) ISBN 978-0-385-41560-6
This period piece set in 17th-century Holland, though unabashedly romantic and somewhat predictable, is far from ordinary. Young painter Francesca Visser's absorbing story, displayed against a carefully documented background of Dutch artistic...
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $22.5 (422p) ISBN 978-0-385-42190-4
Eighteenth-century Venice, ``the brothel of Europe,'' makes a perfect backdrop for this outstanding historical romance by genre veteran Laker ( The Golden Tulip , etc.). At the Ospedale della Pieta, a famous music school for orphaned girls, Marietta
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Rosalind Laker, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-385-47281-4
Laker's 18th historical romance (after The Sugar Pavilion) is a spirited tale of love, war and high fashion. In 1909, 18-year-old Juliette Cladel returns to Paris from years in a convent school and is quickly pressed into service by her sister, who...
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