3 copy giveaway: The Princess of Nowhere by Lorenzo Borghese

Thanks to HarperCollins, Passages to a Past has 3 copies of The Princess of Nowhere by Lorenzo Borghese up for grabs!
SYNOPSIS: Princess Pauline Borghese was a single of a most erotically appealing women of her day. Now her story is unforgettably told by a single of her descendants.... The sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pauline knows which her solitary purpose has regularly been to make an fitting marriage to serve her ambitious brother's goals. But her joie de vivre cannot be containedmuch to a dismay of her brand new husband, Prince Camillo Borghese.
Pauline as well as Camillo's relationship is vigourous at best, with Pauline constantly looking a courtesy of other menespecially after a distressing detriment leaves her devastated, desperate for attention, as well as searching for answers. Yet notwithstanding everything, a love which brought Pauline as well as Camillo together, as imperfect as it might be, can never indeed be stifled.
As seen through a eyes of a immature woman who served as Pauline's lady-in-waiting as well as broker daughter, The Princess of Nowhere is an unforgettable story of a remarkable life which was a investigate in a excesses of a time as well as of a energy of a woman clever sufficient to defy expectations.
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