"THE DEVIL ON HORSEBACK" BY: VICTORIA HOLT. 1977

This romantic suspense novel "THE DEVIL ON HORSEBACK" begins in the 1700s on a vast English estate. It is here the daughter of the school mistress had lived to adulthood and it takes her to France during the French Revolution. She is desired by the heir of the estate, who wants her as his wife and a French Count who wants her to be his mistress. She experiences the brutal hatred of a jealous woman and the horrors of the French Revolution.