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020 _a1922052698 (paperback)
035 _a(OCoLC)861785039
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn861785039
035 _aocn861785039
037 _bSuite 19A, Level 1, Building C, 450 Miller St Cammeray NSW 2062
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082 0 4 _aA823.4
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100 1 _aNicholls, Johanna,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe lace balcony /
_cJohanna Nicholls.
263 _a201407
300 _apages.
520 _aVianna Francis, known in the colony as 'The Sydney Venus', is a notorious young mistress in keeping to a former gentleman convict, who uses her to entice wealthy men to his gaming tables. A woman of mystery, Vianna is a magnet for scandal. Was she the mistress of a Royal duke? A lady's maid who learned the tricks of the world's oldest profession when in service to a Parisian courtesan? Or the widow of a young man executed on the gallows? Men of high rank are determined to possess this passionate, mercenary beauty. The L'Estrange half-brothers were born only months apart. One brother is an idealistic dreamer, the other a volatile adventurer. And the rivals have two things in common - a fatal attraction to get-rich schemes that run afoul of the law - and their obsession with Vianna.
650 0 _91575
_aAustralian fiction.
650 0 _968
_aHistorical fiction.
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