Summary: In the first of the Angélique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer.

Summary: Set against the picturesque springtime in Paris, the President of France's daughter marries a buttoned down cabinet official, but after her new husband starts stepping out behind her back, the young bride takes off for the Riviera.