Impetuous Petronella Fanshawe took the job as governess to Madame deCourcy's children only to escape the domination of her formidable guardian,Mrs. Deeping. But when the de Courcys moved to Paris, Petra traded hergoverness garb for the dark skirts of a spy. She knew that the secretinformation she had overheard was vital to the Duke of Wellington's campaignagainst Napoleon. What Petronella didn't know was that destiny would soonplunge her into the middle of a French war and into the strong arms of thedashing English Lord Claverton!