Cover of A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac

A Daughter of Eve

by Honoré de Balzac

183 pages~3 hrs

In the glittering salons of Paris, the cost of passion is often everything.

Step into the cutthroat world of 19th-century Parisian high society, where the line between a respectable marriage and a ruinous scandal is razor-thin. When a restless wife is lured into a dangerous game of obsession, her only hope for salvation lies in the very family she is about to betray.

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