A Fatal WaltzA Fatal Waltz
Determined to right this terrible wrong and clear Robert's name, Emily begins to dig for answers, a quest that will lead her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid backstreets. Not until she engages a notorious anarchist in a game of wits does the shocking truth begin to emerge: the price of exonerating Robert can be paid only by placing Colin in deadly peril. To save her fiance, Emily must do the unthinkable: bargain with her nemesis, the Countess von Lange.
When her friend's husband is wrongfully accused of murdering the odious Lord Basil Fortescue, Lady Emily Ashton searches for answers, in a case that risks her own fiancé's life and takes her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid alleys. By the author of And Only to Deceive. 20,000 first printing.
When her friend's husband is wrongfully accused of murdering Lord Basil Fortescue, Lady Emily Ashton searches for answers, in a case that risks her own fiancâe's life and takes her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid alleys.
From New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander, a spectacular novel of historical suspense featuring the strong-minded and spirited Lady Emily Ashton
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 the despised Lord Fortescue is not to be her greatest problem. Kristiana von Lange, an Austrian countess once linked romantically with Emily's fiancé, the debonair Colin Hargreaves, is a guest also. And a tedious evening turns deadly when their host is found murdered, and his protégé, Robert Brandon—Ivy's husband—is arrested for the crime.
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. 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 fiancé.
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- New York : William Morrow, 2008.
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