Once again Cheryl Sawyer pens a sweeping saga, beginning on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, a far-flung Bonapartist stronghold buffeted by the winds of war...
To Sir Gideon Landor, an English prisoner in the French colony, Delphine Dalgleish is as pretty -- and as useless -- as a porcelain doll, a Parisian trifle who would think nothing of turning him over to the French legion. To Delphine Dalgleish, he is an ice-cold double agent she despises for his treachery.
But these two are about to discover how wrong first impressions can be. In the midst of the Peninsular War, Sir Gideon has orders to crack the Grand Paris Cypher, a complex code created for Napoleon. Meanwhile, the emperor himself sense Delphine to London on a delicate espionage mission. When Gideon and Delphine confront each other, they manage to defend their dangerous secrets but not their hearts. As passion takes hold, they must decipher their own complex code of love...
