If you have managed to make it through fifth grade world history, you probably have heard the name Bonaparte at least once.
Most of us associate the Bonaparte name with the infamously small emperor with a big name: Napoleon Bonaparte.
But what of Napoleon’s younger brother? Is his a name one you can recall with certainty? Unlikely.
Jerome Bonaparte was supposed to make a diplomatic marriage according to Napoleon.
But when the ambitious Elizabeth “Betsy ” Patterson puts her mind to something, little can dissuade her.
Betsy was a prominent member of Baltimore society with ambitions and designs of her own. She dreamed that she would marry a man who would whisk her away to Europe and low an behold, Jerome Bonaparte is that man!
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On the scarcely populated islands of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands, lies the deserted remains of a once great house–Bhalla House.
In Edwardian London, change is on the horizon. War is eminent and the days of the strict Victorian caste system and societal expectations are on their way out….the modern era is upon the world.
Jac L’Etoile is still struggling to come to terms with her gift of reincarnation and channeling the past lives of those around her.
Mary Sheldon has grown up in the glittering court of Queen Elizabeth I. Mary is an orphan and as a young cousin to the Queen, she is taken in as a ward and raised at court.
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