The epic love of a giant among kings and a goddess among women... Maximilienne was sure only that she loved the magnificent stranger to her husband's chateau. But when he revealed himself as Peter the Great, Czar of all the Russias, she knew she would follow him to the ends of his vast, barbaric empire...and to the limits of his desire for her exquisite beauty. Only the vengeance of an empress could threaten Maximilienne and Peter's unholy alliance - and rob their son of Russia's imperial diadem...in a novel of unbridled power and passion that sweeps from the delights of Paris to the exotic pleasures of St. Petersburg and beyond!

EPIC ROMANCE, BLAZING ADVENTURE, LEGENDARY LOVE... Floris returned to imperial St. Petersburg, where his mother once reigned over Czar Peter's heart. And there, in the fabled city of dreams and memories, the dashing young cavalier surrendered his own to the enchantment of Elizabeth, who he would one day crown Empress - and who, burning with love for him, longed to reward him with her favors and with the empire itself! But between them stood countless royal schemers and an exotic odyssey of peril and pleasure, from the camp of a gypsy temptress to the lusts of the Grand Mogul's women...from the boudoirs of St. Petersburg to beyond the Great Wall of China!

Capete încoronate, căpetenii de oştiri, gentilomi si corsari traficanţi de sclavi îşi disputǎ dragostea frumoasei Baptistine, sora fraţilor Floris si Adrien de Villanueve-Caramey. In vǎlmǎşagul bătăliilor terestre si navale, zvăpăiata si orgolioasa fecioara descoperă primii fiori ai iubirii. Călăuzita de destin spre fabuloase aventuri, refuza fastul si intrigile Versailles-ului căutând refugiu in mirifica Lume Noua. Dar amintirea alesului inimii o urmăreşte dureros. Îl va regăsi oare?

Oricât de blazaţi am fi, nu poţi rezista in fata acestui formidabil roman de "capǎ şi spadǎ"; care te prinde in vârtejul nebunesc al intamplarilor lui si te poarta in mirajul vremurilor apuse, oferindu-ti totodată fiorul uneia din cele mai frumoase si tulburătoare povesti de dragoste din cate s-au scris in anii din urma. Cele patru volume ale romanului istoric din ciclul "FLORIS" al scriitoarei franceze Jacqueline Monsigny au constituit un mare succes de librărie, atât in Franţa, unde au apărut sub egida prestigioasei edituri GRASSET, cat si in cele 120 de tari, unde au fost publicate in tiraje de masa întrunind aprecieri de veritabil best-seller.