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False Lights

`Georgette Heyer meets William Boyd … Intrigue, murder, love and betrayal – I couldn`t put it down` Diney Costeloe. Napoleon has won the Battle of Waterloo and England is under French occupation… A half-drowned girl washes up on a Cornish beach, escaping French soldiers after the murder of her black sea captain father. An aristocratic soldier-spy, haunted by his part in the defeat at Waterloo, plans to spring the Duke of Wellington from captivity. Together, they become enmeshed in a web of treachery and espionage stretching from London to the Scilly Isles. `A marvellously dark and compelling anti-hero and a truly gutsy (and sexy) heroine … A terrific read` Caro Fraser.