How long does it take to read Velvet Is the Night?
Velvet Is the Night by Elizabeth Thornton takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Devereux Family Saga
Previous: Tender the Storm Next: Cherished
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is the second book of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of three young members of the Devereux family as they escape from the violence of revolution-torn France to England and North America. Claire’s story:She swore she’d never love him. He was cold, ruthless, evil . . . and as the newly appointed commissioner, Phillipe Dubet had the power of life and death over the local aristocracy. In return for her family’s safe passage out of the country, the breathtakingly lovely Claire Devereux agreed to be his mistress. She was to live in his luxurious quarters, to be seen with him about town, and to accommodate his desires whenever he wished. Claire surrendered her body to Dubet, but swore he’d never break her spirit. What she didn’t know was that the real Dubet had been abducted, and his American twin brother, Adam Dillon, installed in his place as a spy. And she was devastated to find that her body was not at all immune to the pleasures of “Dubet’s” caress, nor her heart to his intoxicating comapny.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, general
