Eleanor

“I’ve heard the house is heavily guarded,” he said. “No one can get in or out without a signed written permit.”

“I wonder why?”

“Perhaps they foresee some trouble?”

“From whom?”

I don’t know. From you? They’re still looking for you, you know?

* * *

Countess Eleanor Andrassy never imagined she would end up on the losing side of history, much less in the back of an ox-drawn carriage dressed as a gypsy.

Accompanied by her brother Romano, nurse Marta, and maid Emma, Eleanor sets off for Paris in pursuit of safety. Grief stricken over the death of her family members, but stubbornly resilient, Eleanor swears to herself to never love, to never make herself vulnerable again.

With the tyrannical Habsburgs systematically tracking down nobles who dared to defy them, Eleanor must evade not only the enemies snapping at her heels, but a mysterious stranger whose path always seems to cross hers.