![]() Sophie had been living in Paris under an assumed name as the mistress of Maréchal Alexandre McClellan, the scion of a noble Scottish Jacobite family that took refuge in France after the Forty-Five Rebellion. ![]() Stabbed-apparently with a stiletto-and thrown from the bastions of the island’s ancient stone bridge, Sophie dies without naming her murderer. But his search ends in tragedy when he comes upon the dying Countess in the wasteland at the tip of the Île de la Cité. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife, Hero, have traveled to Paris in hopes of tracing his long-lost mother, Sophie, the errant Countess of Hendon. The Bourbon King Louis XVIII has been restored to the throne of France, Napoleon is in exile on the isle of Elba, and Sebastian St. But the secrets of his past will come to light in this gripping new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of What the Devil Knows. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has spent years unraveling his family’s tragic history. ![]()
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