- Description
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander, a spectacular novel of historical suspense featuring the strong-minded and spirited Lady Emily Ashton
At her friend Ivy's behest, Lady Emily Ashton reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of a man she finds odious. But the despised Lord Fortescue is not to be her greatest problem. Kristiana von Lange, an Austrian countess once linked romantically with Emily's fianc , the debonair Colin Hargreaves, is a guest also. And a tedious evening turns deadly when their host is found murdered, and his prot g , Robert Brandon--Ivy's husband--is arrested for the crime.
Determined to right a terrible wrong, Emily embarks on a quest that will lead her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid backstreets--and into a game of wits with a notorious anarchist. But putting Colin in deadly peril may be the price for exonerating Robert--forcing the intrepid Emily to bargain with her nemesis, the Countess von Lange, for the life of her fianc .
Author: Tasha Alexander
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 06/23/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780061174230
ISBN10: 0061174238
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Women Sleuths
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | Victorian
