The first thing that drew me to this book was that it was about spies during the Napoleonic Wars. In the US, these wars don’t get a lot press in the classroom, so to speak. Growing up, my takeaway was that Napoleon was a little man who wanted to own everything, and then he […]
Author: Lisa Chaplin
A born and bred Sydney-sider, Lisa Chaplin spent four years in beautiful Zurich, Switzerland, gathering ideas for her novels before returning to native soil.
After writing twenty books, novellas or online reads for Harlequin as Melissa James, she quit to write historical mainstream full-time. The interest in her “Nighthawks” series of books made her think of taking those spies into history – and she found truth more compelling than fiction. So many facets of the Napoleonic Wars remained hidden…now she brings those stories to life.