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Lola Montez and the poisoned nom de plume [eBook]

By Brennan, Kit, 1957-
2014., Astor + Blue Editions Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Kit Brennan§s frothy, sexy second in the Whip Smart Series opens with the gorgeous, ever-headstrong Lola Montez careening around Europe, on the run from the haunting memories of Spain and the wild adventure that nearly cost her life. It is 1844. Lola encounters celebrated pianist and composer Franz Liszt at a concert near Dresden, and he encourages her to set her sights on Paris to establish her dancing career. And this she does with further assistance from the famed writer, George Sand. The night that Lola performs her racy Spider Dance at the Paris Opéra, she meets quite possibly the man of her dreams: Henri Dujarier, co-owner of La Presse Newspaper and best friend of novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas, whose recent novels about three musketeers and a certain count of Monte Cristo island are running concurrently in newspaper serialization. Lola seems on the verge of breaking Victorian tradition and actually having it all, but forces are at work to keep Lola and Henri apart. Deadly threats and rumours turn into reality, as shadowy figures stop at nothing to sabotage Lola§s new endeavor (unheard of for a woman): to pen an adventure novel, using a nom de plume, about a feisty female character. In the heady nights of Parisian writers, artists and courtesans, with reckless duels fought over every small slight, and where knowing who is enemy or friend is virtually impossible, will Lola survive to find true love and the career of her dreams? She may be too whip smart for her own good.

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Lola Montez conquers the Spaniards [eBook]

By Brennan, Kit, 1957-
2012., Adult, Astor + Blue Editions LLC Edition: eBook. Summary Note: "A wild and sexy romp through history based on the real-life adventures of the audacious, Lola Montez. It is 1842, London, and the gorgeous, ever-capricious twenty-two year old Eliza Gilbert, (aka Lola Montez) is in deep trouble and seeks escape from a divorce trial. Desperate to be free, Lola accepts an alluring offer of a paid trip to Spain, if she will only fulfill a few tasks for Juan de Grimaldi, a Spanish theatre impresario who is also a government agent and spy for the exiled Spanish queen, Maria Cristina. Lola soon finds herself in Madrid, undercover as a performer in a musical play. But when she falls dangerously in love with the target, General Diego de Léon, the "perfect Spanish soldier, lover and horseman", Lola becomes a double agent and the two hatch a plot of their own. Disaster strikes when the plot is exposed, Diego is captured, and Lola is forced to flee on horseback to France, with a dangerous group of Loyalists in hot pursuit. Will Lola's reckless daring, feminine whiles, and signature whip be enough to save her life and preserve her cause? She will have to be more whip smart than ever. Written with zest and a passionate, fiery fervor by debut author Kit Brennan, Whip Smart irresistibly whisks readers into a vivid journey through 19th Century, France, England and Spain, riding sidesaddle with Eliza Gilbert, the hot-headed Irish girl, as she transforms into Dona Maria Dolores de Porris y Montez, aka Lola Montez, the sensation of Europe!"--OverDrive.