On her first wedding night, after killing her husband in a duel, Lord Cranmer, the seventeen-year-old daughter of French aristocrats, Marianne d’Asselna, who seemed fate had prepared for her the entire life of shining in English high society, fled her home into a cruel and unknown world. She will survive there; she will become an active participant in secret diplomacy, in numerous intrigues and conspiracies. Even Napoleon will fall under her influence. Marianne is the heroine of Juliette Benzoni’s series of historical-adventure novels. The multi-volume story of daring twists and an engrossing account of the life of an English lady who never quite made it—translated into twenty languages—brought its author world fame."