| Countess | |
| Author: | Josephine Edgar |
| Country: | England |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Historical romance |
| Set In: | Vienna, Austria 1914 |
| Published: | 1978
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| Pages: | 356 |
| Awards: | RoNA Award |
| Isbn: | 0-354-04305-6 |
| Preceded By: | Duchess |
Countess, sequel to Duchess, is a historical romance novel by Josephine Edgar published in 1978[1] by Macdonald & J. The novel won the 1979's Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[2]
Viola Corbett lives amid luxury in Vienna with her husband, Count Eugene Erhmann, their children, Therese and Lorenz, and her illegitimate son James-Carlo, until all collapses with the outbreak of the First World War. A story of greed, lust, and unreasonable hate; but most of all, a captivating romance.