title: The Mistaken Wife: A Novel
author: Rose Melikan
description: Set in 1797, Melikan's entertaining third historical thriller featuring Mary Finch (after The Counterfeit Guest) takes the British spy to France, where she poses as the wife of an American artist. With England and France at war, spymaster Cuthbert Shy asks Finch to befriend U.S. envoys in Paris, to foster "disagreement, confusion, and enmity" between France and America and plant the seeds for an alliance with Britain, to whom the Americans are bound by "ties of kinship, language, history, and temperament." Shy insists that she keep this vital mission secret even from her significant other, Capt. Robert Holland, though Holland himself winds up across the Channel to look into reports that the French have invented an undersea weapon whose tests have led to reports of sea monsters. Melikan successfully captures the spirit of the period while rooting her suspenseful espionage plot in actual events. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Her Unexpected
  
  Husband
  
  by
  
  Abby Gordon
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events,
  or locales, is entirely coincidental.
  
  Her Unexpected Husband
  
  COPYRIGHT © 2014 by Abby Gordon All rights reserved. No part of this book may
  be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of
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  First Scarlet Rose Edition, 2014
  
  Digital ISBN 978-1-62830-396-4
  
  Published in the United States of America
  
  **Dedication**
  
  To the “real” Reese and Sandi.
  
  