The Stranger's Embrace

Wilhelmina Sinclair lives under crushing grief in the year since her husband's ship sank off the French coast. Desperate for something to occupy her mind, she seeks solace in her friend Emma, and together they travel to Paris in an effort to free Emma's relatives being held as political prisoners. Though Willa is fearless, often reckless, she is unprepared for the hell storm that is Paris in 1792, a city in thrall of the Revolution's new toy: Madame Guillotine. Adding to the horror of the d...