From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE
AMERICAN BOY comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the
French Revolution.
Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes
in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose
their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent
for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta
has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who
is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased
by a group of émigré refugees.
Savill is sent to retrieve the boy,
though it proves easier to reach Charnwood than to leave. And only when
Savill arrives there does he discover that Charles is mute. The boy has
witnessed horrors beyond his years, but what terrible secret haunts him
so deeply that he is unable to utter a word?
