I enjoyed the first book in this series a lot, but found the second one here lacking somewhat. Our heroine, Heloise, is the sister for Nicolas from the first book. She’s a codebreaker, working to decipher documents for the government so she’s portrayed as a smart young woman. She’s convinced no one will ever marry her, since she has a scar on her forehead from an incident in her youth. Her secret vice is naughty underthings, since her mother taught her that ‘you never know […]
Thief of His Heart
She’d chosen a perfect night for thieving. The Seine rippled a dull, gunmetal gray in the moonlight, and a concealing mist snaked low over the dirty water, blanketing the faint, fetid odor of refuse and rotten fish. Notre Dame lay behind her, Pont Royal to her left, though it was called Pont de L’égalité nowadays. Everything had a different name since the Revolution. Including the woman in front of him. So starts this book, which is a written by a debut author who is one […]