Tempting Fate
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Saint-Germain Cycle: Publication Order (5), Saint-Germain Cycle: Chronological Order (Russia, Europe, and England (1917-1928))
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Austria during the 1920s is the setting for the fifth of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's novels about the elegant and mysterious Count Ragoczy Saint-Germain. In Tempting Fate, the Count becomes guardian to a spirited and talented young girl named Laisha, a Russian war orphan. Traveling frequently to the great cities of Europe, the pair move in a world whose days are numbered, as the landed nobility of Europe face the shocks of the future. Saint-Germain must come to the aid of three women: a Russian show more duchess who has to make a new life for herself in Paris after the revolution, a beautiful young widow who sees her family fortune squandered and her centuries-old home menaced by a new order of violence, and Madelein de Montaila, the entrancing Frenchwoman who shares Saint-Germain's long memory and his secret. After a horribly cruel crime, Saint-Germain decides on a desperate course of action that could lead, even for him, to a lasting death. Tempting Fate is the richest, most passionate, and most poignant of the Saint-Germain series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. show lessTags
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160+ Works 9,628 Members
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California on September 15, 1942. She graduated from San Francisco State College in 1963 and worked as a demographic cartographer until becoming a full-time writer in 1970. She writes horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels including Time of the Fourth Horseman, To the High Redoubt, Spider Glass, show more Arcane Wisdome, and The Saint-Germain Cycle series. She has received several awards including a Life Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2009 and a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention in 2014. In 1997, the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on her. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Saint-Germain Cycle: Publication Order
32 works (5)
Saint-Germain Cycle: Chronological Order
34 works (Russia, Europe, and England (1917-1928))
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Science Fiction Book Club (6407)
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1981-12-15
- People/Characters
- Saint-Germain; Rogerian; Madelaine de Montalia; Laisha Vlassevna
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3575 .A7 .T4 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Members
- 209
- Popularity
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- (4.11)
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 3
