Flappers & Fiction

Raised within the gloomy walls of the Chateau de Bieuvre, Yseult d’Arminge knows little of affection until a brief, sun-drenched summer with her cousin Jacques. But silence and separation are cruel guardians. Believing herself forgotten, she allows the convent’s ambitious Superior to maneuver her into a union with the elderly Due de Nemouse. When the truth of Jacques’s devotion is finally revealed amidst the wedding fête’s cruel splendor, Yseult faces a heartbreaking choice between a sacred vow and the only love she has ever known.