Beneath a Silent Moon

Tracy Grant made a stunning debut with "Daughter of the Game, a suspenseful novel that lifted the curtain on the glittering world of Regency London, revealing a maze of intrigue and scandal, and introduced Charles and ME lanie Fraser -- a fascinating couple whose private lives are at odds with their public image. Now Grant returns with a sweeping new novel that explores the Frasers' partnership in adventure. London, 1817: Under the cover of darkness, a cloaked stranger steals into the city. He has a job to do: a task that began in a shadowy past. It is going to be difficult. But then murder always is....On that same evening, London's "beau monde is celebrating amid the splendor that is Glenister House. The Napoleonic Wars are finally at an end, and ME lanie and Charles Fraser, one of society's most intriguing couples, have traded the moment -to -moment dangers of war for the elegance of the British aristocracy. ME lanie, a war bride, is an amateur on these civilized battlefields, where age-old alliances intertwine like melodies in a Mozart opera and carnality pulses just beneath a veneer with the sugar-coated beauty of a Fragonard painting. Charles, a diplomat and intelligence agent during the war, is now a fast-rising Member of Parliament. He seems completely at ease in the world to which he was born, but ME lanie feels her husband has become a polite stranger. Enter Honoria Talbot, the woman everyone expected Charles to mGrant, Tracy is the author of 'Beneath a Silent Moon', published 2003 under ISBN 9780066211428 and ISBN 0066211425.