"Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn on a tiger skin? Or would you prefer to err with Elinor Glyn on some other fur?"
Before Lady Chatterley's Lover, before Fifty Shades of Grey, there was the novel that terrified Edwardian moralists and captivated millions across the globe: Elinor Glyn's legendary 1907 international bestseller, Three Weeks.
Banished by his aristocratic family to the serene waters of Lake Lucerne after an ill-advised countryside flirtation, young Englishman Paul Verdayne expects dull exile. Instead, in the shadowy corridors of a Swiss hotel, he crosses paths with an enigmatic, solitary woman wrapped in dark silks a foreign Queen traveling incognito, possessing devastating intellect, hypnotic beauty, and perilous secrets.
What begins as a chance encounter swiftly ignites into an obsessive, twenty-one-day passion. Amidst private villas, moonlit gondolas through Venice, and nights spent before an opulent Siberian tiger skin, the Queen awakens Paul to philosophy, poetry, and the untamed heights of supreme love.
Yet their three weeks cannot outrun fate. Pursued by the shadow of a despotic, vengeful king and bound by royal destiny, their forbidden liaison triggers a chain of events that will alter dynasties and exact the ultimate sacrifice.
