The Emperor’s Letter

A Novel of Napoleonic France

De: Steve Goldstein

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Paris, 1814. Napoleon’s empire is collapsing. And a dead man has just written to his wife.For sixteen months, Élise de Villeneuve has mourned her husband, Colonel Henri de Villeneuve, reported killed during Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Russia.Then a sealed letter arrives.The handwriting is unmistakably Henri’s.The message contains a terrifying warning:Trust no one who tells you how I died.Especially Captain Lucien Moreau.Lucien was Henri’s closest friend. He fought beside him in Russia. He was the man who returned to Paris and told Élise that her husband was dead.And now he is the man she is beginning to love.As Allied armies close on Paris, Élise and Lucien are drawn into a dangerous world of intercepted letters, secret police, political betrayal and a hidden document powerful men will kill to keep from Napoleon.Then the impossible happens.Henri comes home.Caught between the husband she buried and the soldier she has learned to trust, Élise must uncover a conspiracy reaching into the heart of the collapsing French Empire—and decide where loyalty ends and betrayal begins.The Emperor’s Letter is a fast-moving historical romantic thriller of espionage, divided loyalties and forbidden love, set against the dramatic fall of Napoleonic France.