The story opens in the shop of M. Legros, tailor to Louis XIV and the court of Versailles, and crosses to the England of Charles II at the height of the Popish Plot. A false identity, a marriage made under it and a husband’s desperate love are tested when accusations of treason bring the lovers before the courts.
Costume romance by the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel, set in the feverish England of 1678. Download the free EPUB.