In 2017, a man is found dead in the London sewers. The investigation quickly zeroes in on the man's girlfriend, whom he had met through the efforts of their mutual employer, Nicholas Zaroff. It turns out that this mysterious Russian oligarch has but a single purpose in life: to take his revenge on those who caused his ancestor's death 170 years before....
In 17th century France, a woman of unparalleled beauty gets unwittingly pulled into a political plot that she doesn't fully grasp. Corrupted by treachery and pretense, she will soon become one of the most feared spies of her era, wielding the cape of deception just as skillfully as a deadly sword.
Keen wit and a sharp blade, D'Éon is an icon of sexual ambiguity and one of French history's greatest mysteries. The controversy surrounding the knight's gender was one of the juiciest bits of gossip of the 18th century. But his history only starts out glamorously. Éon was indeed an androgynous spy as at ease in a skirt as a Dragoon captain's uniform,...
Louis XV's favorite spy, the Chevalier d'Éon has infiltrated the king's court in England and earned a comfortable position as Minister. But the intrigues, his position as a secret agent, and the king's erratic impulses will put him in peril. In the end, D'Éon will fall from grace. He will need all his energy and skill to make it out of this difficult...
Keen wit and a sharp blade, D'Éon is an icon of sexual ambiguity and one of French history's greatest mysteries. The controversy surrounding the knight's gender was one of the juiciest bits of gossip of the 18th century. But his history only starts out glamorously. Éon was indeed an androgynous spy as at ease in a skirt as a Dragoon captain's uniform,...