Courtesan to the Buddha

By Donna Baier Stein

She lived for art. She lived for love. But Sarah Bernhardt never imagined that her grief over her husband's death would bind her to the young woman who had secretly been his mistress. Paris, 1895. Marianne is anonymous, ambitious, and heartbroken-- a village girl who risked everything for a man who promised her the world. Sarah is imperious, legendary, and equally undone by loss. When Sarah offers Marianne a place on her American tour, an uneasy alliance is formed, and the two women set sail for New York. There, amid Nikola Tesla's crackling laboratories and the luminous teachings of Swami Vivekananda, they find themselves at the center of a city where science and spirituality, desire and reinvention, collide. In fin-de-si cle Manhattan, both women must confront betrayal, longing, and the fragile possibility of starting again. Courtesan to the Buddha is a richly imagined novel about the passions that consume us-- and the wisdom that, slowly, sets us free.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646038827
• ISBN13: 9781646038824
• Release Date: August 2027
• Publisher: Regal House Publishing
• Length: 202 Pages