Margaret Porter
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Publisher
Gallica Press
Language
English
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Hannah Ballard’s most successful relationship: her career.
Her superpower is an uncanny ability to discover perfect movie settings while avoiding the limelight herself. She’s involved in pre-production for a film based on a bestselling historical novel when a chance meeting with an aristocratic landowner leads her to Somerset and his estate in picturesque Milver Vale—the ideal backdrop for a period drama. Martin Latimer, Marquess of Milverston,...
2) Road to ruin
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English
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"Forced to leave her village after vicious rumors about her living alone threaten her reputation, Nerissa Newby sets out for her uncle's home and, along the way, encounters dashing Dominic Blythe, who is fleeing a trumped-up murder charge." --
Author
Publisher
Gallica Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hedy Kiesler, Austrian actress of Jewish heritage, scandalizes Europe with her nudity in the art film Ecstasy. Her hasty marriage to a wealthy munitions merchant disintegrates as he grows increasingly controlling and possessive. Even worse--he supplies deadly weapons to Hitler's regime. She flees husband and homeland for Hollywood, where Louis B. Mayer transforms her into Hedy Lamarr, an icon of exotic glamour. Professional success clashes with...