Book description
The French Revolution, 1790 and onwards. Spirited Chantel is furious
with the leader of the revolutionaries, Captain Gautier, who takes over
her estate, but though hating everything he stands for is strangely
attracted to this saturnine man. She is courted by a French Comte and
helps him escape from Gautier, adopting the disguise that is going to
cover her tracks as she organises escape routes for her persecuted
friends. She dresses as a man and earns the name of The Fox, and through
a series of adventures she is threatened by the feared Chief of Police,
who imprisons her in his fortress where she is groomed for his mistress,
the beautiful and corrupt Voletta Delmar. The regim is brutal, with
aristocrats going to the guillotine daily, and Chantel risks her life to
save some of them, eventually escaping to Dieppe and an English ship
that will take her home. But can she leave Gautier, and can she ever
settle for the humdrum again with so much adventure on offer? The
French Revolution, 1790 and onwards. Spirited Chantel is furious with
the leader of the revolutionaries, Captain Gautier, who takes over her
estate, but though hating everything he stands for is strangely
attracted to this saturnine man. She is courted by a French Comte and
helps him escape from Gautier, adopting the disguise that is going to
cover her tracks as she organises escape routes for her persecuted
friends. She dresses as a man and earns the name of The Fox, and through
a series of adventures she is threatened by the feared Chief of Police,
who imprisons her in his fortress where she is groomed for his mistress,
the beautiful and corrupt Voletta Delmar. The regim is brutal, with
aristocrats going to the guillotine daily, and Chantel risks her life to
save some of them, eventually escaping to Dieppe and an English ship
that will take her home. But can she leave Gautier, and can she ever
settle for the humdrum again with so much adventure on offer?
