The Hungarian Adventuress
'You're young beautiful, poor and unhappy, can't you see it's a recipe for disaster?'

Countess Gabriella knew that her behaviour was making her the gossip of fashionable Vienna. Only her dead husband's cousin, the Polish Major Adam Dubrowski, sensed the grief that lay behind her brittle facade and even then he accused her of being an unscrupulous adventuress...

What was Gabriella to do when the people she most trusted and loved, wanted only to use her as a pawn in their bid to gain one of the greatest fortunes in Europe?