By Lorenzo Borghese
Prince Lorenzo Borghese, a descendant of the brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, bursts boldly onto the old fiction scene with The Princess of Nowhere—a alluring and richly atmospheric re-imagining of the lifetime of the author’s well-known ancestor, Princess Pauline Bonaparte Borghese. writer Borghese—whom television audience will realize for his visual appeal at the hit ABC sequence, The Bachelor—will enthrall readers of Sarah Dunant and Suzannah Dunn with this masterful mixture of truth and fiction, a narrative of ardour, betrayal, and one girl who really conquered all…even death.
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Sophie did not see the maidservant; her gaze was now locked on her hands, which, as instructed, were folded in her lap. “I have not seen you since the funeral,” the woman was saying to her grandfather. Her voice had laughter in it. That seemed strange to Sophie, to be laughing when they were talking of funerals. It was Cousin Emmanuel’s funeral they meant, she supposed. She had not attended, but her father and grandparents had. Her father and grandfather had come back talking of how lovely Emmanuel’s widow was, and her grandmother had come back talking of how dreadful it must have been to sail all the way across the ocean with his coffin.
At the mention of this last item, Camillo shifted uncomfortably. So, he had heard the tale of the groaning ghost. It was Angiolini’s personal favorite among the current collection of stories about Pauline. He sighed. “Let me guess what the countess told you. She told you that Pauline not only took a lover during the passage back to France but that she received his carnal embraces on her husband’s very casket. That as the sinners reached the height of pleasure, a groan was heard from inside the coffin and the widow fled in terror, screaming to the sailors on deck that her cabin was haunted.
Sophie said fiercely. She pulled her arm out from the little girl’s back and swung around to face her. “He loved her. He took care of her when she was ill. He buried her in the family chapel. ” Sophie touched her chest lightly, where the paper rested, folded in her bosom. She always carried it with her on the anniversary of Pauline’s death. “He wrote her a letter about how much he loved her. ” “Bettina says—” “Bettina was not there. ” Agnese stared up at her, a little frightened at her tone. “Where?