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  • MediaDB / «Vicky" by Ruth Walker: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 1996 / Full of passion, a bewitching story about three generations of the most beautiful women endowed with brilliant talent... ...THE WHEEL OF DESTINY ROLLS Everyone's favorite Vicky is the child of the fatal love of the handsome aristocrat Jayme Saint-Clair and the dazzling Circus Princess Mara, who soared from the darkness of poverty and ignorance to stellar heights on the wings of her own titanic efforts and enormous talent. For the sake of the imaginary well-being of her daughter, but at the terrible, exorbitant price of renouncing her in a moment of hopeless despair, Mara allows Jayme's father, the despotic Count Saint-Clair, pick up Vicky and take her to the family estate, where she grows up to be a coldly well-bred beauty, completely far from the circus fraternity. “This girl is a sign of trouble,” Michael Bradford says about her at the very beginning of their acquaintance, and he is right: the tragic death of her father, the injury of her mother, the dramatic break in her own fate, which threw Vicky out of the aristocratic saddle and plunged the life of the lower classes into the dust - such is her destiny. And yet, passionately in love Michael, contrary to reason, links his fate with Vicky…