A French doctor is mutilated and murdered in a London slum, while the badly injured Alexi Sauvage is found nearby. Sebastian knows Alexi from a wartime disaster and discovers that the dead physician belonged to a secret French delegation exploring peace between Napoleon and Britain.
The inquiry reaches back to the imprisonment and uncertain death of the young Louis XVII during the French Revolution. As rival Bourbon and Napoleonic interests close around the surviving witnesses, Sebastian must confront his guilt over the past while protecting Hero and their unborn child.
Georgette Heyer
41 books
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