The Troika Belle
"TELL ME, SIR, WHO IS THAT FASCINATING YOUNG WOMAN OVER THERE TALKING WITH M. DE TALLEYRAND?"

Thus did handsome rakehell Sacha Arioff discover that his once-drab little emigre companion, his waif Lise, had blossomed into an international beauty.

It all began when Sacha was banished to his estates by the Tsar and drunkenly tried to decide which of his mistresses to take with him.  Much to his horror he found he had brought none of them.  Instead, it was Lise who sat beside him.  Lise, his father's ward.  A poor French refugee - half child, half woman.

But Lise began to grow up.  And when Sacha tried to ignore this, Lise planned her revenge - a revenge that was to shake the glittering courts of Europe from London to St. Petersburg.