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Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi", is the Princess Diana of 19th-century European countries. Famously beautiful, as captured in a family portrait with diamond superstars in her scalp, she actually is unfulfilled in her matrimony to the elderly Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her behalf private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horses. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in Britain. He is also impoverished, with no hope of shopping for the horse needed to earn the Grand National - until he matches Charlotte Baird. A smart, plainspoken heiress whose money gives her a decision among suitors, Charlotte comes in love with Bay, the first man to really notice her, for his vulnerability as well as his glamour. When Sisi joins the renowned hunt planned by Earl Spencer in Britain, Bay is asked to guide her on the treacherous course. Their distributed passion for using causes an infatuation that threatens the growing relationship between Bay and Charlotte, and all of their futures. The Fortune Hunter, the brilliant new book by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, amazing story of the general public lives and private longings of grand historical numbers.
