While London waits for news of the armies converging on Waterloo, the mutilated body of Major Miles Sedgewick is pulled from the Thames. The victim was secretly married to Alexi Sauvage, lover of Sebastian's friend Paul Gibson, placing both of them in danger of arrest.
Sebastian uncovers Sedgewick's mistresses, abandoned wife, military associates and interest in folklore and the occult. A missing list of Londoners who spied for Napoleon gives several powerful people a reason to kill, while new deaths make the evidence against Alexi increasingly difficult to dismiss.
Georgette Heyer
41 books
Julia Golding
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