num_pages: 410
description: It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found raped and savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an agent during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian's heart years ago. In Sebastian's world of intrigue and espionage, nothing is as it seems, yet the truth may hold the key to the future of the British monarchy, as well as to Sebastian's own salvation....
language: English
title: What Angels Fear
titlecomplete: What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1)
characters: Giorgio Donatelli, Martin Wilcox, Edward Maitland, Alistair St. Cyr, Earl of Hendon, Tom, Paul Gibson, Amanda Wilcox, Hugh Gordon, Bayard Wilcox, Kat Boleyn, Hero Jarvis, Sir Henry Lovejoy, Lord Frederick Fairchild, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, Leo Pierrepont, Charles, Lord Jarvis
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, Romance, Mystery, Regency, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 16121
places: London, England
series: Sebastian St. Cyr
publisher: Signet