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The year is 1809. Wellington is fighting the French in the Peninsula, but all is not well back in England. While the beaus and belles of the haut ton move among the salons and the great houses of London, Napoleon’s agents stalk the streets.
When Charlotte Hopesay, a young woman with a taste for gothic novels, is caught up in a plot to discredit her fiancé’s family she is brought into the orbit of Lord Alexander Harrow, and the secretive organisation dedicated to countering the Corsican’s ambitions, known only as Wenlock House.
In that unexpected part of the literary landscape where Georgette Heyer meets Jason Bourne, Charlotte and Lord Alexander must struggle to defeat a conspiracy that threatens the very highest in the land. And through it all there marches an infamous elephant, the Bridekirk Behemoth.
When Charlotte Hopesay, a young woman with a taste for gothic novels, is caught up in a plot to discredit her fiancé’s family she is brought into the orbit of Lord Alexander Harrow, and the secretive organisation dedicated to countering the Corsican’s ambitions, known only as Wenlock House.
In that unexpected part of the literary landscape where Georgette Heyer meets Jason Bourne, Charlotte and Lord Alexander must struggle to defeat a conspiracy that threatens the very highest in the land. And through it all there marches an infamous elephant, the Bridekirk Behemoth.
