Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days

The Hundred Days. Napoleon has escaped Elba and Europe holds its breath. In the shadow of the Emperor's dramatic return, a rich English businessman and an aristocratic Frenchwoman find themselves on opposite sides of a chasm that love cannot easily bridge. Richard Lansdowne, a wealthy Englishman drawn to Paris by curiosity and commerce, encounters the fiery Denise de Croisselles, noble, proud, and devoted to the royalist cause. Their attraction is immediate and devastating, but she sees only an English opportunist profiting from her nation's turmoil, while he sees a woman trapped in a dying order. As Napoleon's armies march toward Waterloo and the countdown to destiny begins, they must navigate a world of spies, salons, and shifting loyalties. Orczy, the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, delivers historical romance at its most evocative. The Hundred Days provides the perfect backdrop, thirty weeks of suspended fate when everything hung in the balance. This is a novel about the small wars fought in private hearts while the large wars of empires rage in the distance. For readers who crave adventure, intrigue, and love that blooms in the shadow of history.