International espionage and intrigue… Two great enemies – the Russian and Ottoman empires – conspiring to defeat the British Empire… A father at death’s door and mother at her wits’ end… And lovely young Rozella Beverly, embroiled by events beyond her control in a perilous spying mission in Constantinople at the heart of the Ottoman Empire. In a desperate bid to save her family, Rozella also strives to save the British Empire and in the process to earn the respect – perhaps even the love – of her haughtily handsome, woman-hating spymaster, Lord Mervyn.