OPIS
1788, and unrest rumbles asross France. Asa Ardleigh, the impressionable daughter of a country squire, travels to Paris with her newly wedded sister, Philippa. In the heady days before Revolution, they find a city fizzing with ideas - and Asa falls in love with the dashing activist, Dider Paulin. But as the storm clouds gather, Asa must return home.
In England, no one knows of Asa's liaison and the family's financial worries put pressure on her to marry elsewhere. An exiled marquise is employed to help finesse Asa's accomplishments - until disturbing news arrive from France...