Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second
she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan she knows the rumor-that her father is none
other than the Prince of Wales heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at
Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel where royals rulers and the wealthy live they even called her The
Princess. But her life is turned upside down when she turns seventeen. Sent to London under the
chaperonage of her very proper aunt she's told it's time to learn manners and make her debut.
But Cleo's life can't be confined to a ballroom. She longs for independence and a career as a
jewelry designer for Cartier but she cannot move forward until she finds out about her past.
Determined to unlock the truth Cleo travels from London back to Cairo and then Paris where
her investigations take a shocking turn into the world of the Parisian demi-monde and a
high-class courtesan whose scandalous affair with the young Prince of Wales threatened to bring
down the British monarchy long before anyone had heard of Wallis Simpson--
