All for Love

By Jane Aiken Hodge

Cousins who might be twins, Juliet and Josephine, are separated by the Battle of Waterloo, only to meet again, four years later.

Both are orphans now, but Juliet is penniless, while Josephine has made a marriage of convenience with a rich Savannah planter.

Each in her own way is desperate, and when Josephine proposes that Juliet play, once more, their childhood game of impersonation, she is driven to agree.

She takes her cousin’s place, deceiving even her estranged husband, while Josephine tries a mad gamble to rescue Napoleon from St. Helena.

Plunged into the social whirl of Savannah, and on the great plantation of Winchelsea, Juliet finds the stakes higher than she had realised, and learns all too soon just how little Josephine has told her…