The Accidental Empress Audiobook (Free)

A FRESH York Occasions bestseller, The Accidental Empress may be the “captivating, absorbing, and beautifully told” (Kathleen Grissom) love tale of “Sisi” the Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph.

The entire year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most effective ruling family. With his empire extending from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is usually young, wealthy, and ready to marry.

Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess of Bavaria, moves to the about The Accidental Empress Habsburg Courtroom with her older sister, who’s betrothed to the youthful emperor. But soon after her entrance at courtroom, Sisi discovers herself in an unpredicted dilemma: she has inadvertently fallen for and won the center of her sister’s groom. Franz Joseph reneges on his previously proposal and declares his purpose to marry Sisi rather.

Thrust onto the throne of Europe’s most treacherous imperial courtroom, Sisi upsets politics and familial loyalties in her mission to win, and keep, the love of her emperor, her people, and of the world.

With Pataki’s wealthy period fine detail and cast of complicated, bewitching heroes, The Accidental Empress offers “another absolutely powerful tale” (Mary Higgins Clark) with this glimpse into one of history’s most interesting royal families, dropping new light around the glittering Hapsburg Empire and its own most mesmerizing, most beloved “Fairy Queen.”