The Paris Conspiracy: Scarlet Somerset Scandals
Paris, 1816. The city is celebrating peace over a foundation that is not entirely solid, and Josephine Ashby has noticed.
She came to Paris because her aunt required a companion and matrimonial project. She intends to leave having been neither. What she did not anticipate was a murdered diplomat in a service corridor, a silver mask pressed into a darkened alcove, and a man who finds her before morning.
Robert Cavendish has spent six years being useful to the Crown in cities that required careful management. Paris is his most dangerous posting yet, a Bonapartist network, a traitor inside the British mission, and a list of names that will get eighty people killed if it reaches the wrong hands. What he needs is a witness with excellent French, a precise mind, and the specific quality of someone who pays attention to everything.
What he did not plan for was Jo.
Their arrangement is professional. The terms are clear. Neither of them is prepared for what twelve weeks of shared danger and careful distance accumulates into.
Set against the heat and intrigue of post-Napoleonic Paris, the Tuileries in winter fog, the Palais Royal humming with conspiracy, the masquerade where everything begins, The Paris Conspiracy is a story about two very precise people who spend twelve weeks pretending not to notice the obvious, and what happens when the operation ends and the obvious can no longer be ignored.
Venice is next. But first, Paris must be survived.
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