Napoleon’s Secret Daughter

Paris, 1792. In the fury of revolution, the guillotine spares no one. Amid the chaos, Citizen Officer Malet rescues a newborn girl—the daughter of a condemned marquise. He raises the child as his own, revealing nothing to her about her real mother. None knows who the father is; the marquise took this secret to the guillotine.

Sixteen years later, Napoleon is Emperor, and that same girl, Laurence, has grown into a brilliant, fearless revolutionary, taught by Malet to hate Napoleon and find ways to kill him—both unaware that it is Napoleon who is her real father.

Laurence stands at the center of anti-Napoleon conspiracies reaching from the secret society of the Philadelphes to the glittering courts of the Empire, alongside the cunning Fouché, the luminous Joséphine, and the resourceful patriot “Grippe-Sols.”