Why Kings Confess

About the book

The brutal killing of a young French doctor has attracted the attention of noble investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, plunging them into a perilous, long-standing mystery that forces Sebastian to confront a painful chapter from his own history.

Set in Regency England in January 1813, the discovery of an injured French woman next to the mutilated body of Dr. Damion Pelletan in a notorious London slum entangles Sebastian in a complex web of murder and vengeance. Despite the woman, Alexi Sauvage, being unable to recall the event, Sebastian recognizes her from a traumatic incident in his past - an act of cruelty and treachery during wartime that had nearly destroyed him.

As Sebastian delves deeper into the investigation, he uncovers Pelletan’s involvement in a covert mission sent by Napoleon to explore the potential for peace with Britain. Ignoring warnings from his influential father-in-law, Sebastian embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery of the ‘Lost Dauphin,’ the young prince who vanished during the French Revolution’s darkest days, leading to a dangerous confrontation with the Dauphin’s sister - a relentless, formidable offspring of Marie Antoinette, hell-bent on reclaiming the French throne at any cost.

With the murderer closing in, Sebastian must confront his growing anxieties about Hero’s well-being and the imminent arrival of their child. Realizing that their survival may hinge on an unlikely source - an old foe - Sebastian must confront the painful truth of his own culpability in a past he has long sought to avoid.