Who would have thought that a love of books could lead to disaster! Not Abigail Vale, whom her friends call her “bluestocking” behind her back. And yet, it was precisely because of the book that accidentally fell into her hands that the girl found herself drawn into a dangerous intrigue, spun by one of Bonaparte’s most insidious spies. Abigail tries to extricate herself from the death trap, but suddenly her friend Hugh Templar, whom Abigail still considered an eccentric scientist unadapted to life, comes into play... How wrong she was!