A midnight dance by lila dipasqua5/25/2023 So anyway, the plan goes awry when Jules forbids his men from drinking the drugged wine and Sabine has to sleep with him for real. Jules became a pirate (I think?) and the silver is going to be used to help clear his family name. Jules’ father was accused of treason and his family lost their standing. Turns out one of those “pirates” is a man Sabine used to see at the theater and fantasize about as her Dark Prince, Jules de Moutier. Sabine and her brothers hatch a crazy scheme to rob some pirates of trunk loads of silver–Sabine will pretend to be a prostitute “Elise” and lure their leader into a false sense of security, and then they’ll get the men to drink drugged wine so they pass out. The heroine, Sabine Laurent, is suffering: her father (a once successful playwright/ theater owner) is dead, her sister is missing, the theater is gone, and she owes more in taxes than she can ever hope to pay. The story takes place after The Fronde in France. The cover and title suggest that it’s a Cinderella story, but I’m not sure it really qualifies. A Midnight Dance by Lila DiPasqua is complete ridonkadonk historical crazy sauce.
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