Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French
doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman
entangles Sebastian in the deadly riddle of the "Lost Dauphin," the boy
prince who disappeared during the darkest days of the French Revolution.
Thrust into dangerous conflict with the Dauphin's sister--the imperious,
ruthless daughter of Marie Antoinette--Sebastian finds his self-control
shattered when he recognizes the injured woman as Alexi Sauvage, a
figure from his own past associated with an act of wartime brutality and
betrayal that nearly destroyed him.
With the murderer striking ever closer, Sebastian fears for the lives of
his pregnant wife, Hero, and their soon-to-be-born child. And 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 an incident he has
found too terrible to consider....