Death Wears a Crown - Mme. Vernet Author:Quinn Fawcett While on a sensitive mission for her husband the Inspector General, lovely Victoire Vernet inadvertently stumbles upon a traitorous cabal. Not everyone in France revels in the triumphs of her adored hero Napoleon Bonaparte. Rumors that the great leader is to be formally crowned Emperor have incensed many powerful aristocrats, malcontents and for... more »eign intriguers who plot in secret to bring down the coronation, and death to any man or woman who falls privy to their seditious schemes. So now Victoire's life isn't worth a sou, but she is undaunted, for she possesses the steely courage of Jeanne d'Arc, and the exceptional cunning necessary to squash the fiendish consipiracy that threatens to tear her nation apart.« less