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Nightingale
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00D8MEL8E
Count Maximilian discovers Klara in a Nightingale Cage, an orphanage for the abandoned children of musicians. He educates her, fosters her remarkable vocal talent and initiates her into the art of love, creating the perfect mistress. The Count controls every aspect of Klara's life, until fate, in the form of handsome Akos Almassy, takes a hand. The tall, dark Magyar violinist can make beautiful music and healing potions, too, but can he rescue Klara from the Count--and live?
Count Maximilian discovers Klara in a Nightingale Cage, an orphanage for the abandoned children of musicians. He educates her, fosters her remarkable vocal talent and initiates her into the art of love, creating the perfect mistress. The Count controls every aspect of Klara's life, until fate, in the form of handsome Akos Almassy, takes a hand. The tall, dark Magyar violinist can make beautiful music and healing potions, too, but can he rescue Klara from the Count--and live?
270 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 5, 2013
About the author
Juliet Waldron
23 books33 followersJuliet Waldron was baptized in the Yellow Spring of a unique Ohio farm town. After some years in an upstate New York farmhouse with a resident ghost, she began to travel with her Auntie Mame mother, who flamboyantly adored history and grand opera.
Returning to the States, got married and raised sons, eventually working at jobs ranging from artist's model to power-suited Merrill Lynch “girl.” Then, she went off the deep end and began to write. She enjoys putting what she has learned about people, places and relationships into her stories. She has granddaughters she'd like to see more often, several cats, and just celebrated her 51th wedding anniversary with a guy who rides a Hayabusa and hasn't lost her off the back yet.
Returning to the States, got married and raised sons, eventually working at jobs ranging from artist's model to power-suited Merrill Lynch “girl.” Then, she went off the deep end and began to write. She enjoys putting what she has learned about people, places and relationships into her stories. She has granddaughters she'd like to see more often, several cats, and just celebrated her 51th wedding anniversary with a guy who rides a Hayabusa and hasn't lost her off the back yet.
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November 9, 2017
In ‟Nightingale,” Juliet Waldron returns to the music scene of eighteenth century Vienna, so masterfully depicted in ‟Mozart’s Wife” and ‟My Mozart.” It is no mere setting, but a fully realized, sensual, extravagant, decadent, and dangerous world, bursting with sound, scent, and glittering wealth. Here an innocent young girl blessed with exceptional gifts is rescued from the ‟nightingale cage” at the convent orphanage for children of actors and musicians. Under the patronage of the powerful Count Maximilian Oettingen, Karla Silbur grows into a young woman. She studies with the best vocal instructors in Vienna, and is in every way transformed from her humble beginnings into a lady of refinement. She soars as a prima donna of the opera, extolled for her beauty as well as her magnificent voice. But the nightingale longs to be free of the cage in which Max keeps her under lock and key for his own perverse enjoyment.
Freedom will come at a hefty price – if it is to be had at all – as she discovers when the darkly handsome, enigmatic attendant to a Hungarian prince enters her life. In Akos Almassy’s strong hands she discovers a physician’s restorative skill and the inspired touch on a harpsichord’s keys that speaks to the yearning in her heart.
For the very likeable Karla and Akos, the path to love and freedom is littered with obstacles, not the least of which is her own ambivalence. She’s worked hard to achieve material and artistic success in the music capitol, where the elderly Haydn, Handel, and young Mozart are among her admirers, where such fame is all too fleeting, and where others with motives both sincere and sinister prove to her that no one can be trusted.
Waldron transports the reader into a past world, where this opulent era comes to life with a richness of detail that involves all the senses. Characters – whether major or secondary – are well-rounded and portrayed faults and all. (Even the ‟villain” has a few redeeming features.) ‟Nightingale” is a must read for anyone with a love for a good old-fashioned historical romance and a bit of wanderlust for time travel.
Freedom will come at a hefty price – if it is to be had at all – as she discovers when the darkly handsome, enigmatic attendant to a Hungarian prince enters her life. In Akos Almassy’s strong hands she discovers a physician’s restorative skill and the inspired touch on a harpsichord’s keys that speaks to the yearning in her heart.
For the very likeable Karla and Akos, the path to love and freedom is littered with obstacles, not the least of which is her own ambivalence. She’s worked hard to achieve material and artistic success in the music capitol, where the elderly Haydn, Handel, and young Mozart are among her admirers, where such fame is all too fleeting, and where others with motives both sincere and sinister prove to her that no one can be trusted.
Waldron transports the reader into a past world, where this opulent era comes to life with a richness of detail that involves all the senses. Characters – whether major or secondary – are well-rounded and portrayed faults and all. (Even the ‟villain” has a few redeeming features.) ‟Nightingale” is a must read for anyone with a love for a good old-fashioned historical romance and a bit of wanderlust for time travel.
August 10, 2016
In intricate detail, author Juliet Waldron spins the story of Klara Silber, an innocent taken from a convent by a powerful man, to be treated and abused as his "pet." Klara's beautiful singing voice brings her fame but not happiness. When Akos Almassy, a handsome harpsichordist, comes into her life, she's filled with desire and fear. How will she escape her patron?
I was drawn into this tale by the lush prose, descriptions of clothing, jewelry, and details of Klara's performances. Tension is maintained throughout as Klara fights to be free of her gilded cage.
Waldron obviously knows her stuff when it comes to music and pure desire.
I was drawn into this tale by the lush prose, descriptions of clothing, jewelry, and details of Klara's performances. Tension is maintained throughout as Klara fights to be free of her gilded cage.
Waldron obviously knows her stuff when it comes to music and pure desire.
June 6, 2014
This is the kind of historical romance that I really devour. It reminded me a bit of Jane Lark's Illicit Love Of A Courtesan, though Klara isn't a courtesan, but then again, in a way, she is.
Every so often I like a darker romance and this fits the bill.
I love the setting of the novel in Vienna in the 18th century. Its a magical time for music and Juliet has worked in this time period before with her "Mozart" novels. Mozart even figures into the story as a secondary character. I really loved how she portrayed him as a youth, interacting with Klara and Akos.
But what I loved is the relationship with Klara and Akos. You just really loved them both..and of course, hated Max. By the end of the story, you will really hate Max. At first this felt like it was going to be a wonderful story of Klara and Akos' relationship, but then Max comes back and that's how things go to the "dark" side. (In this case physical and mental abuse).
It is a story that has a happily ever after, but one that also has consequences, so it wasn't entirely happy. So in some aspects, it felt real.
Definitely a historical romance for those that like something a little more than a bodice ripper. I look forward to reading more of Juliet's novels.
Every so often I like a darker romance and this fits the bill.
I love the setting of the novel in Vienna in the 18th century. Its a magical time for music and Juliet has worked in this time period before with her "Mozart" novels. Mozart even figures into the story as a secondary character. I really loved how she portrayed him as a youth, interacting with Klara and Akos.
But what I loved is the relationship with Klara and Akos. You just really loved them both..and of course, hated Max. By the end of the story, you will really hate Max. At first this felt like it was going to be a wonderful story of Klara and Akos' relationship, but then Max comes back and that's how things go to the "dark" side. (In this case physical and mental abuse).
It is a story that has a happily ever after, but one that also has consequences, so it wasn't entirely happy. So in some aspects, it felt real.
Definitely a historical romance for those that like something a little more than a bodice ripper. I look forward to reading more of Juliet's novels.
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