Nathalie, as a baby was left on the steps of the Regent street Orphanage in London. She had
a small silver bracelet on her wrist engraved with her name. In the orphanage she learnt to
play the piano she also experienced her first true love with the Irish girl, Cathleen. During
her time in the orphanage she also befriended a farmer and his French wife. At sixteen years
of age she left the Orphanage to work as a servant with an aristocratic English family. There
she tutored their younger daughter Emily on the piano. All went well until the master of the
house attempted to rape her. After that she was falsely accused of theft and had to fled to
Paris to escape the English police. Emily because of unforeseen circumstances joined her in
Paris. Emily loved a stable boy, Nathalie loved a Baron. Both men were beyond their grasp.
Fate then had them both accused of a crime they did not commit. Both then faced death by
the guillotine. Both girls had to avoid that death at all costs. Their paths would separate under
totally different situations in avoiding the guillotine. They then both had to be united with
the men they loved. With their personal struggles and triumphs they had to also navigate
their way through the French Revolution back to the safety of the shores of England. Would
both girls eventually avoid death by the guillotine. Would either of them end up with the
man they loved. This is a story of adventure, of miraculous circumstances, of avoiding death
by the guillotine and of people seeking love. It’s a story about a common piano teacher and
her pupil and best friend Emily. It’s a story of love however both girls would have to kill to
survive. Adeline, a French prostitute was the key to that survival. Adeline would also have
to kill to survive. Amongst the killings would love triumph.