The murder and assault coincide with a possible turning point in Anglo-Franco relations. On an East London street, Gibson stumbled across a grisly scene-a woman seriously wounded near the butchered corpse of a French physician, Damion Pelletan, whose heart was removed. Cyr, estranged son of the Earl of Hendon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, from his closest friend, Dr. In January 1813, a case comes to aristocratic sleuth Sebastian St. When he realizes the key to their survival may lie in the hands of an old enemy, he must finally face the truth about his own guilt in a past he has found too terrible to consider.The past casts a long shadow in Harris’s best Regency whodunit yet, the eighth after 2013’s What Darkness Brings. With the murderer striking ever closer, Sebastian must battle new fears about Hero’s health and that of their soon-to-be born child. Despite his powerful father-in-law’s warnings, Sebastian plunges deep into the mystery of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared in the darkest days of the French Revolution, and soon finds himself at lethal odds with the Dauphin’s sister-the imperious, ruthless daughter of Marie Antoinette-who is determined to retake the French crown at any cost. Although the woman, Alexi Sauvage, has no memory of the attack, Sebastian knows her all too well from an incident in his past-an act of wartime brutality and betrayal that nearly destroyed him.Īs the search for the killer leads Sebastian into a treacherous web of duplicity, he discovers that Pelletan was part of a secret delegation sent by Napoleon to investigate the possibility of peace with Britain. Damion Pelletan in one of London’s worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of murder and revenge. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr.
Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian’s past puts him to the ultimate test. The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St.
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