A Sheaf of Bluebells

by Emmuska Orczy Orczy

"A Sheaf of Bluebells" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy is a novel published in 1917. Set in Napoleonic France, it follows the bitter conflicts between returned Royalist exiles and Bonaparte's followers. When the aristocratic Fernande schemes to seduce the revolutionary Ronnay—her promised fiancé's half-brother—she sparks a dangerous game of passion and politics. Family loyalty fractures as love, jealousy, and treachery collide in a household divided by opposing allegiances to crown and empire.