Full name and title: Jacquette Gyldenstolpe
Born: July 4, 1797
Died: January 7, 1839
Swedish countess navigating court scandal, family betrayal, and forbidden love.
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Was the Butterfly Game real?
Yes—and no.
While researching the Swedish royal court for my historical novel, Butterfly Games, I came across the word fjärilsleken—literally, “the butterfly game�—in a biographical reference discussing Queen Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta’s diaries.
Book Two in the Butterfly Games series turns up the heat on Jacquette, Oscar, and Carl. Here are the literary love triangles inspiring the story.
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Literary Love Triangles: Team Oscar, Team Carl—or Team Jacquette?
The love triangle in Butterfly Games Book Two is heating up. Meet the books inspiring it—and decide whose team you’re on.
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Finspång Castle was more than Jacquette Gyldenstolpe’s childhood home. It was a noble estate, an industrial center, and a place that shaped the heroine of Butterfly Games.
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Finspång Castle: Inside Jacquette Gyldenstolpe’s Childhood Home Finspång Castle: The Swedish Estate...
Finspång Castle was more than Jacquette Gyldenstolpe’s childhood home. It was a noble estate, an industrial ...
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The safe choice. The choice of her heart. Two hundred years apart, are Evie and Jacquette so different?
I’ve added Kelley McNeil’s Mayluna to My Bookshelf—and explored why readers drawn to its meaningful love triangle may also enjoy Butterfly Games.
Mayluna Mayluna: The Safe Choice or the Heart?
Two hundred years apart, Evie and Jacquette face the same impossible choice between security and the man they cannot stop loving.
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I did. I wrote Butterfly Games, Book 1.
Historical fiction set in late-Napoleonic Sweden, with royal scandal, forbidden love, dangerous gossip, and real people making seriously bad decisions.
A Swedish countess. A French-born prince. A palace full of enemies.
Read Butterfly Games. Link in bio.
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Butterfly Games, Book 1.
A Swedish countess. A French-born prince. A royal court where no one escapes without a little damage.
For readers who like their historical fiction with scandal, politics, forbidden love, and real people behaving badly in beautiful ballrooms.
Read it now. Link in bio.
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I love reading novels about real women in history who did amazing things. This Wednesday, join four of my favorite authors discussing their recent works. These are all great books for your historical fiction TBR. Register and get a chance to win a book bundle with all four signed books! Scan the QR code to register for the Zoom and giveaway.
Happy 250th birthday, America. 🇺🇸
And in the world of Butterfly Games, July 4 belongs to Jacquette and Oscar, too. It`s their shared birthday.
They met when they were quite young, and in the summer of 1811, both stayed at Drottningholm Palace, that glittering royal world of impossible futures.
For Jacquette, one look was enough.
She never looked back.
What began as a summer encounter became the kind of love people talk about for centuries.
Read Butterfly Games and discover how Jacquette and Oscar’s story began. Link in bio.
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I have happy book news: Butterfly Games*has won the Bronze Medal in Historical Fiction (Romance) in the 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards!
The IPPY Awards honor independent publishing, and I’m so happy that Jacquette’s glittering, dangerous, late-Napoleonic Swedish world has received this recognition.
Thank you to every reader, reviewer, bookseller, librarian, blogger, and historical fiction friend who has helped her story find its way. I’m so grateful to all of you.
If you’ve been waiting for a reason to step into the salons, secrets, and dangerous games of Butterfly Games…visit my website to learn more. 🦋
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I binge watched season one of Off Campus, and just bought all the books. Without a doubt, John Logan was my favorite character. Wouldn’t Antonio Cipriani play a great Oscar? What do you think? #historicalfiction #bookstagram #offcampus #butterflygames
For Memorial Day, my historical novel, Butterfly Games, was featured by James Lane Post as part of the Bedside Reading luxury hotel program!
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I vissa lekar innebär vinst att man förlorar allt som betyder något.
I början av 1800-talet förs den unga grevinnan Jacquette Gyldenstolpe in i det svenska hovets glamorösa men farliga värld. Bakom fasaderna pågår en maktkamp mellan kronprins Karl Johan och de sista gustavianerna, och varje felsteg kan kosta mer än rykte och ställning.
När Jacquette förälskar sig i prins Oscar, arvtagare till den svenska tronen, dras hon in i ett förbjudet förhållande som hotar den nyetablerade Bernadotteätten. Men kärleken har ett pris, och snart bär Jacquette på en hemlighet som kan förändra både hennes liv och rikets framtid.
Fjärilslekar är en historisk roman om passion, plikt och maktspel, baserad på verkliga personer och händelser. En bok i samma anda som Philippa Gregorys historiska romaner.
Let’s not stop now! You’ve moved Butterfly Games up to number 10 on the Kindle best seller list for 19th Century Historical Fiction. 99 cents now through May 27, US only.#historicalfiction #bookstagram #99centbooks
