{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This is the second book of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of three young members of the Devereux family as they escape from the violence of revolution-torn France to England and North America.\r\n\r\nClaire\u2019s story:She swore she\u2019d never love him. He was cold, ruthless, evil . . . and as the newly appointed commissioner, Phillipe Dubet had the power of life and death over the local aristocracy. In return for her family\u2019s safe passage out of the country, the breathtakingly lovely Claire Devereux agreed to be his mistress. She was to live in his luxurious quarters, to be seen with him about town, and to accommodate his desires whenever he wished. Claire surrendered her body to Dubet, but swore he\u2019d never break her spirit. What she didn\u2019t know was that the real Dubet had been abducted, and his American twin brother, Adam Dillon, installed in his place as a spy. And she was devastated to find that her body was not at all immune to the pleasures of \u201cDubet\u2019s\u201d caress, nor her heart to his intoxicating comapny."}, "title": "Velvet is the night", "subject_places": ["New York (N.Y.)", "France"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "History", "Fiction, general"], "key": "/works/OL15390450W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1385587A"}}], "subject_times": ["1775-1865", "Revolution, 1789-1799"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [6600023], "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-09-29T19:08:01.329600"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-17T04:31:51.529044"}}