Bob Marshall-Andrews

Camille Bob Marshall-Andrews

A beautiful fugitive. A secret treaty. A decadent age. And the lost papers of the greatest diarist that ever lived. Tying together historical fiction, espionage and crime, Camille is a historical adventure to mirror a glorious age.
1670, Restoration England . Bawdy, sensual and in the shadow of renewed conflict between King and Parliament. The prospect of a new civil war haunts English life. Royal advisor Samuel Pepys is dispatched by Charles II to negotiate a secret treaty with Louis XIV of France.
Troubled by failing eyesight, the acclaimed diarist requires a scribe. After a chance meeting, he employs the beautiful Camille, a fugitive French actress, pursued by powerful French
nobility and driven by terrible revenge. As they
journey to Paris, tracked by violent and mercenary agents of Parliament, an improbable literary love story unfolds in an atmosphere of deadly danger and political intrigue.