Cirrus@Austlit

'He’s ruthlessly experienced. She’s a novice — in over her head.

'Adeline Perran doesn’t want to be a traditional woman. Knitting or sewing? No thank you. She’d rather row her dinghy and have adventures beyond her Cornish village. So when a ship flounders off the coast one night, she seizes her chance and goes smuggling … only she doesn’t count on getting arrested and becoming a spy to gain her pardon.

'Richard Clendon, code-name Finch, is the most experienced agent at the network. He’s tasked with training Adeline but when they’re given a dangerous mission across Napoleon’s war-torn France after only three weeks, she’s hardly ready. Frankly, he’s not sure she’ll survive.

'They travel as husband and wife but they’re discovered, and as they flee merciless militia, Adeline must use her ingenuity to keep them alive. But being a pretend wife often leads to wanting the real thing and soon she faces the greatest danger of all — the love that flares between her and Finch —unbidden and totally impossible …'

Source: Publisher's blurb.