The duchess

By Danielle Steel

Subjects: nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2017-07-16, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, romance, historical, Brothels, Fiction, Social life and customs, Orphans, Aristocracy (Social class), Fiction, romance, historical, general, History, Paris (france), fiction, Prostitution

Description: Thrown out of her ancestral home by her brutal half-brothers after the death of their father, Angélique Latham makes her way to Paris, where she takes in abused streetwalkers and transforms them into upper-crust courtesans in an exclusive bordello.