Snippet from A COURT LADY

“Von Lichtenberg, I wish that you will consider this offer. I want to see you married off. It is your duty, as a soldier, to found a family, before you go to fight. And there are several young ladies who might be acceptable. There is Mlle. De Belmaris. If you were to take her, I'd be very generous with your next command”

I have posted this work, my novel A COURT LADY on the pages section.  It is set in Napoleonic France at the Imperial Court.  The heroine Corisande is a girl who works as a reader to the Empress Josephine.  The hero is Sebastian Von Lichtenberg, a soldier from a small German state which is allied with Napoleon....  The couple are thrown together and expected to marry.....