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Alice is the daughter of a French noblemen and an English lady. Summoned to France in the worst possible time: the French Revolution.
Stripped of her French titles, home attacked and destroyed. Revolutionaries fill the streets and food is even more scarce than the gold in people's pockets.
Can she keep her head?
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