A very dangerous attraction...
Julien Harcort, duc de Valere, is more than willing to marry the lovely lady his mother has chosen. Little does he know she's been sent to prove him a spy and a traitor...
And an even more dangerous secret...
Sarah Smith's mission is to find out whether the duc's trips to the Continent are as innocent as he claims, but the way he looks at her are far from innocent.
Their risky game of cat and mouse propels them from the ballrooms of London to the prisons of Paris and into a fragile love that my not survive their deceptions...
The plot for this book was pretty straightforward: the hero and heroine are going to fall in love. What Sarah and Julien do not have, however, is an instant chemistry, at least not one that I readily believed and wanted to see come to fruition. But as the narrative progressed, their coupling slowly wormed its way into my mind. Adding the is-he-or-isn't-he-a-traitor? only helped to further the cause, since Sarah wrestled with this same question over and over. She comes to believe he is not and goes so far as to accompany Julien on what he hopes will be his final trip to Paris. The real traitor -- and Sarah's true identity -- were points I didn't see coming, though I suppose I should have expected both. I'm looking forward to reading the final two books in this series.
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