At her friend Ivy\'s behest, Lady Emily Ashton reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of a man she finds odious.
But putting Colin in deadly peril may be the price for exonerating Robert--forcing the intrepid Emily to bargain with her nemesis, the Countess von Lange, for the life of her fiance..
Determined to right a terrible wrong, Emily embarks on a quest that will lead her from London\'s glittering ballrooms to Vienna\'s sordid backstreets--and into a game of wits with a notorious anarchist.
And a tedious evening turns deadly when their host is found murdered, and his protege, Robert Brandon--Ivy\'s husband--is arrested for the crime.
Kristiana von Lange, an Austrian countess once linked romantically with Emily\'s fiance, the debonair Colin Hargreaves, is a guest also.
But the despised Lord Fortescue is not to be her greatest problem.
At her friend Ivy\'s behest, Lady Emily Ashton reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of a man she finds odious
