Suddenly, a loud voice bellowed upstairs. “Bastard!”
Charles
raced up to the third floor and found Arthur Hurst sitting at a desk,
rummaging through drawers. He clutched a piece of paper in one hand,
shaking with rage as he looked up at Charles.
“Businessman,
hah! This man, Black is a British agent! Here’s the proof of his
duplicity. Where is he? It’s time to put an end to the vermin.”
Charles
gasped in shock. The entire charade was unraveling! He tentatively
leaned toward the desk and reached for the note. “What do you mean? What
evidence?”
Hurst glanced down at one of the drawers. He reached inside and picked up a ledger. “Wait a moment. There’s something else.”
Charles’
eyes darted toward the window, knowing Black lay outside, unconscious
and defenseless. Quelling an urge to run, he pretended to be curious and
slowly edged around behind the man, as if to look over his shoulder.
What could he do? Desperately his gaze searched for an answer until he
spied a letter opener. In one motion, he grabbed the dagger and plunged
it into Arthur’s back. The rotund body jerked upwards, dropping the
notebook. He tried to turn around, but instead, slumped forward onto the
desk.
For a moment, Charles stood shaking in disbelief at what he had just done to his sister’s husband.
William
Darmon and wife Elizabeth were powerful figures who in 1818 set
society’s pace from expansive grounds known as Mayfair Hall. When a
family member is murdered, a mysterious pendant is found containing a
long lost request by Napoleon Bonaparte for an American mission to burn
down Parliament buildings. The couple sets out on an action filled
pursuit of the killer. While interviewing Henry Clay in post-war
Maryland about the failed mission, they uncover evidence of a conspiracy
to free the Emperor from exile. The Darmons infiltrate the cadre, but a
shipwreck off the coast of Scotland, a firestorm at the Darmon’s Manor
and a harrowing assault on the Island of St. Helena loom before the
mystery can be unraveled.
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Genre – Mystery, Historical, Thriller
Rating – PG
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