When the armistice between France and England came to an end in 1803 Napoleon in a rage interned ten thousand British Tourists who were in France at that time. Many, to save being arrested went into hiding, among them the wife an daughter of Sir Edward Waltham, who had died that winter. A year later Vernita was keeping her mother precariously alive on the money she obtained for making exquisitely embroidered lingerie for Napoleon's sister, Her Imperial Highness Princess Pauline Borghese. Vernita finds the shop is cheating them and disguised as a petite bourgeoisie she goes herself to the Princess with a negligee she has just finished. From that moment she is involved in complications with the Princess's lover, Count Axel de Storvik and with the Emperor Napoleon himself. How Vernita loses her heart and saves herself and the Count from being betrayed to the French is told in this brilliant and exciting 200th book by Barbara Cartland.
