Encore

by Monique Raphel High

What if you had to choose between your deepest passion and your one true love? Beautiful and talented, Natalia Oblonova must deny her heart to achieve her dreams of joining the Mariinski Ballet. Becoming the protégée and wife of Count Boris Kussov, an enigmatic, charismatic member of the highest aristocracy is Natalia's ticket to fame and prestige in a cutthroat world of competition and betrayal. But her heart isn’t his. Her heart belongs to an unruly artist, Pierre Riazhin—an artist she left for her place as a socialite. Through wars and deception, passion and lust, nothing can keep Pierre from having what he's always wanted—Natalia. He wants his second chance—his encore.

702 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 1982

Reviews

[Heather]

I am a ballet dancer myself so I was very excited to receive this as a birthday present. It is very well written but it just seemed to go on and on and it made me quite bored. The love couple you are just wanting them to get together during the whole book and when they finally do it is a complete disaster! Not my favorite sorry.

[Shurooq]

The life story of a prima ballerina, her struggles and triumphs and a good description of pre world war paris and russia.

[Darby]

It was dramatic and dynamic. I liked it in a melodramatic sort of way.