Lady Arianna is just settling into marriage with the Earl of
Saybrook. She is accepting of her idiosyncrasies but she
hasn't settled in with the ton yet. Arianna has just found
the perfect book for Sandro's birthday, but someone attacks
her with a knife insisting the book belongs to him.
When Lord Mellon, Sandro's uncle asks them to attend a house
party to aid with a Spanish delegation, they resign
themselves to doing their part. Arianna is stunned to
recognize the man who attacked her as part of the Russian
delegation attending the party.
Sandro is shot at while the men are out hunting. As she sits
as his bedside, Arianna discovers some hidden papers in the
book she purchased for Sandro. These events will lead them
to the investigation of a plot at the Congress in Vienna.
Codes and uncertainty will draw them ever deeper into
discovering the identity of those who wish to throw Europe
back into turmoil.
Andrea Penrose has written a fascinating story based around
the events that led to the Congress in Vienna. France is
trying to recover from the the reign of Napoleon and keep
their national identity. Peopled with historical and
fictional characters, readers will be held spellbound by the
events portrayed in THE COCOA CONSPIRACY. The verbal
sparring between Sandro, Baz, and Arianna is a delightful
backdrop to the danger that they find themselves in.
Lady Arianna's gift of a rare volume of botanical engravings
to her husband, the Earl of Saybrook, has something even
more rare hidden inside-sensitive government documents which
would mark one they hold dear as a traitor of King and
country. To unmask the villain, they must root out a cunning
conspiracy-armed only with their wits and expertise in
chocolate...
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