It's dangerous to be an honest woman. Amber St. Antoine flees Paris-and her role in spying on Bonaparte. The deputy chief of police, a venal man, craves Amber as his mistress. He'll do anything to seduce her, even imprisoning her friends and charging them with crimes. Amber, rescued from neglectful parents as a child by her influential aunt, grew up in the shadow of the Terror and went to prison with her...