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Empire of Desire: Tales of Forbidden Passion in French, Italian, and Spanish Colonies
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Series: Courts & Colonies
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 6 2026
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three forbidden passions rise in the shadows of empire.
From the marble cloisters of Italian-occupied Albania to the perfumed salons of French Tunisia and the lush estates of Spanish-controlled Philippines, Empire of Desire explores love that defies rule, custom, and nation.
In The Cloistered Bride, a young noblewoman is forced into a convent to fulfill her family's alliance with the occupying Italians-but a forbidden love reveals deeper secrets and ancestral betrayals.
In Touch Me Not, a sheltered Filipina daughter falls in love with a Spanish soldier-only to discover that desire in a colonized world is never safe, especially when her body and freedom are not truly hers.
In The Perfumed Vice, a mixed-race soldier seduces his way to the top of French Tunisian society, only to learn that ambition is its own trap-and love, its cruelest luxury.
Tales of passion, power, and peril await in this Courts & Colonies volume of historical Gothic romance.
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