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MIREILLE PAVANE

• Herausgeber: Mireille Pavane
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Isabeau's life has not been all smooth sailing but she has survived and thrived, rising to the pinnacles of New York society. Isabeau is beautiful, intelligent, poised, widely coveted and envied. When she meets golden boy Jacob Wakefield, the habits of a lifetime cannot prevent her beguilement. Fate, however, seems to enjoy toying with Isabeau. Fate, and Isabeau's nemesis - sweet, adored, privileged, unattainable Manon Alexander, whom Jacob loves. If it wasn't for Manon... Except life, as Isabeau finds out, is rarely so simple or accommodating...

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Table of contents

ENVY Mireille Pavane

COPYRIGHT

ENVY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPHS

PROLOGUE

THOU SHALT NOT

NO GOOD DEED

EPILOGUE

AFTERWORD

Thank You for Reading

Also by Mireille Pavane

About the Author

ENVY

Mireille Pavane

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2018 Mireille Pavane

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author or publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

This is a work of fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN (e-book): 9788835861485

Cover design: Mireille Pavane

Cover image: image by MR1313 at Pixabay

ENVY

Isabeau’s life has not been all smooth sailing but she has survived and thrived, rising to the pinnacles of New York society. Isabeau is beautiful, intelligent, poised, widely coveted and envied. When she meets golden boy Jacob Wakefield, the habits of a lifetime cannot prevent her beguilement. Fate, however, seems to enjoy toying with Isabeau. Fate, and Isabeau’s nemesis—sweet, adored, privileged, unattainable Manon Alexander, whom Jacob loves. If it wasn’t for Manon... Except life, as Isabeau finds out, is rarely so simple or accommodating...

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COPYRIGHT PAGE

SYNOPSIS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPHS

PROLOGUE: INVIDIA

THOU SHALT NOT: ISABEAU

NO GOOD DEED: MANON

EPILOGUE: THE OCULAR PROOF

AFTERWORD

THANK YOU FOR READING

ALSO BY MIREILLE PAVANE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DEDICATION

To M.R.T.,

for everything that was suffered and endured.

Sometimes the fair and happy endings that prove so elusive in life can be found in fiction.

EPIGRAPHS

ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων

(A man’s character is his destiny.)

—Fragment 119, Heraclitus

Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof

—Othello (Act 3, Scene 3), William Shakespeare

PROLOGUE

INVIDIA

Alack! it is not when we sleep soft and wake merrily that we think on other people’s sufferings; but when the hour of trouble comes, said Jeanie Deans.

—Walter Scott (epigraph to Chapter XI of Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost)

Ei mi tortura sempre:

“Ove fuggì? Con chi?

A Nord? Ad Est? A Sud?”

Io rispondo: “Non so!”

Ma alfin l’ho persuaso!

(He keeps on pestering me:

“Where’s Manon?

Where has she gone? With whom?

To the north? The east? The south?”

I reply: “I don’t know!”)

—Manon Lescaut (Act Two), Giacomo Puccini

The annual retreat for the partners and senior associates of the firm of Sinclair Martindale Page hosted by the Pages at their vast Southampton estate was enlivened this year by the anticipatory whiff of fresh scandal.