The Empress of Ice Cream

Author(s): Anthony Capella

Location(s): England, France, Italy

Genre(s): Historical, Romance

Era(s): 1670s

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FRANCE 1670. Carlo Demirco’s mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle, an impoverished lady-in-waiting. The most powerful ministers of two countries have decided that Louise is to be Charles II’s new mistress, and will stop at nothing to make sure she submits. But Carlo too is fascinated by the enigmatic Frenchwoman.With the king’s every pleasure the subject of plots and betrayals, and Carlo’s only weapons his exquisite ice creams, soon he must decide …Where do his loyalties lie?

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Ice cream writ large! Another of Capella’s novels that hits the culinary mark!

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Ice cream – Cream Ice – Ice Cream – Cream Ice

Author: Isabella Orff

Louise de Keroualle is shipped over from Versailles to London to charm Charles II as part of a great political plot in the 1670s – will she or won’t she surrender to him? But whatever happens to her (and...

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Intrigue & Ice Cream in 17th Century Paris & London

This is a sumptuous and sensual novel that really brings to life the courts of the French and English monarchs during the late 17th Century when Louis XIV and Charles II were secretly plotting to turn England (back to)...

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