Scott R Rezer

The Haberdasher's Wife Scott R Rezer

1800-Überlingen, German States, Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire. Change is on the wind. A new century has begun and war with Napoleon Bonaparte continues to spread like wildfire, while the Enlightenment quietly breaks down traditional barriers of class, education, and the arts, in the last holdouts of Absolutism in the old German States. For Josefa von Bandel, a nobleman's daughter, her life on the quiet shores of the Bodensee is caught up in the dramatic changes sweeping across Europe-and in her own troubled life. She is young and beautiful and willfully stubborn. She risked her reputation for a scandalous affair-but will she sacrifice everything else for love?