Vanessa — Lynne Connolly

First love, or last? In the fateful year of 1815 Vanessa, the new Lady Vesey, accompanies her diplomat husband Christopher to the Congress of Vienna. Newly married and trying to forget her previous life, Vanessa is confronted by her lost love, Emery Graham. Unsure of her feelings for her husband, or his for her, will Vanessa decide to throw in her lot with Emery or stay with Chris? Diplomacy turns to danger. Thrown into a desperate mission to save the life of the man she loves, Vanessa has to face her deepest fears. "Vanessa" is set in the glamorous cities of London, Vienna and Paris at a time of great turmoil. A breathless adventure of life and love all the way from the glittering ballrooms of Vienna to the blood spattered fields of Waterloo, peopled by a colourful collection of characters from the charismatic Prince Metternich to Vanessa's ambitious mother.