Napoleon’s flat-bottomed boats are gathered on the French coast waiting to invade the Sussex beaches. Information and spies are regularly smuggled back and forth. But the war becomes profoundly personal for Miss Liza Henshaw when she realizes her father and Captain Robert Amesley, the neighbor she thought she knew so well, might be involved.Robert has returned from service in the British Navy, a changed man. He is more hardened, decisive, intriguing . . . and secretive. When Liza overhears Robert and her father plotting to smuggle information into France, she realizes he has changed more than she can accept.Liza is not a spy, but she can’t allow inexperience or fear stop her from discovering their plot and saving them from the consequence of their treason. At the same time, she must find a way to resist the disturbingly compelling Robert. But spies have no control over what they find . . .
