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The Marquis Wins

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For demure young and beautiful Daniela Brooke it had been bad enough to find out that her much-loved late father, Lord Seabrooke, had been tricked into marriage by the use of drugs by a disreputable Parisian courtesan called Esmé Blanc. It was even worse to discover just four weeks after her father’s death that her scheming stepmother is trying to arrange a marriage in the German spa resort of Baden-Baden between Daniela and her penniless lover for her own nefarious and greedy purposes, as Lord Seabrooke has left all his money and estates to Daniela and most definitely not to Esmé Blanc. Although guarded by day and night by her stepmother, in desperation Daniela manages to meet the Marquis of Crowle secretly in the garden of the Baden-Baden casino and begs him to help her escape as soon as possible from her perilous predicament. Overcome with sympathy at her story, the Marquis arranges to whisk her away from the Church at the very last minute before she is married and they sail off back to England in his magnificent yacht, The Sea Horse, down the River Rhine to freedom with Daniela’s wicked stepmother in hot pursuit. Will the distraught Daniela find the freedom she yearns for from her grasping stepmother? And even then can it be possible that she will ever find the sublime love that she has always dreamed about? 

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The Marquis Wins
The Marquis WinsI visited Baden-Baden first in 1933 and thought it one of the most beautiful places I had ever seen. Now, when I have travelled all over the world, I still think the same. There is something magical about the ancient town and the glorious casino, all gold and crystal. The gardens slope down from the fairy-tale Bremer Park Hotel to the slow-moving River Oos with its tinkling cascades and romantic bridges. In A Gamble with Hearts, my first novel set in Baden-Baden and my second, The Marquis Wins, the heroine stays in the Stephanie Hotel, which was named by the Grand Duchess Stephanie who in 1806 made Baden-Baden famous. A niece of the Empress Josephine, it was Napoleon who married her to the Grand Duke Karl Frederick of Baden. Unhappy in the marriage, Stephanie made Baden-Baden the centre of her life and, as the elite of Europe were entertained in her salon, the town became known as ‘Stephanie’s Capital’. The Stephanie Hotel soon became too small to accommodate so many visitors. Today it has become the Bremer Park, but one can still feel the glamour and beauty that the lovely Grand Duchess left behind. She still touches the heart of all who stay in Baden-Baden.

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