Sorte em Amor

by Berta Ruck

This charming story concerns he adventures of Mary Louise Threadgold and these adventures are within twenty-four hours, most of them twelve. Mary Louise Threadgold is employed in a beauty shop. A boarding house companion needs money, and that very badly.
The Beauty Girl, as she is called by an aristocratic young woman, for whom she doubles, volunteers to sell a patch case, that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and takes it with her to work. This relic is supposedly her lucky talisman in love, and from the time the girl leaves her house carrying it things happen fast, once they start and they end only with a marriage definitely settled, where a day before it never had been suspected.
A young society woman sends for Miss Threadgold and induces her to double for her at a mask ball. Some are deceived by the substitution, others not. Anyway, the story from there becomes exciting and its development so rapid that the reader begrudges the double-named young woman the few hours sleep she gets during that eventful night.
(from the front flap)

140 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1937

About the author

Amy Roberta Ruck was born on 2 August 1878 in Murree, Punjab, India, one of eight children by Eleanor D'Arcy and Colonel Arthur Ashley Ruck, a British army officer. Her family moved to Wales, where she went to school in Bangor. On 1909, she married novelist (George) Oliver Onions (1873-1961), and they had two sons: Arthur (b. 1912) and William (b. 1913). Berta died only nine days after her 100th birthday.

From 1905, she began to contribute short stories and serials to magazines, and on 1914, her first novel "His Official Fiancée" was published. She wrote over eighty romance novels. She also wrote an autobiography and two memoir-style works.