With Violets

In this moving and tragic love story, Berthe Morisot, the only female French Impressionist painter, is a woman ahead of her time. Melancholy, driven, and talented, she is deeply in love with the great painter Edouard Manet, whose controversial works of art inspire cutting criticism. He's a rebel, a revolutionary, and the love of her life. He's also a married man. Since they can't be together, the very eligible Berthe shuns the idea of marriage and focuses on the only other love that will ever measure up to Edouard Manet - ... Read More

In this moving and tragic love story, Berthe Morisot, the only female French Impressionist painter, is a woman ahead of her time. Melancholy, driven, and talented, she is deeply in love with the great painter Edouard Manet, whose controversial works of art inspire cutting criticism. He's a rebel, a revolutionary, and the love of her life. He's also a married man. Since they can't be together, the very eligible Berthe shuns the idea of marriage and focuses on the only other love that will ever measure up to Edouard Manet - her painting career. The Manet brothers, Edouard and Eugene, visit Berthe often. As Eugene develops romantic feelings for her, Edouard realizes he, too, is in love with her, but has no right as a married man to discourage his unmarried brother from pursuing her. Then Berthe and Edouard consummate their relationship by having an affair. Teetering on scandal, Edouard devises a plan that will hopefully unite this love triangle by respectable bonds . . . but will he have the heart to follow through with it? Elizabeth Robards also writes contemporary romance as Nancy Robards Thompson. She's a former journalist whose publishing credits include Reinventing Olivia , published by Five Star in July 2003, various short stories, and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. This two-time nominee for the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart for traditional romance finally struck gold in July 2002 when she won the coveted award. She's lived in Orlando, Florida, most of her life, but she dreams of stealing away to Paris and living the life of a bohemian expatriate with her husband Michael, their daughter and three cats. Read Less