Glamour in Glass

Nebula Award nominee 2012, Locus Award nominee 2013.

In the reprieve after Napoleon abdicates, during the Seventh Coalition, Jane and Vincent go to the continent for their honeymoon. While there, the deposed Emperor escapes his exile in Elba, throwing the continent into turmoil. With no easy way back to England, they struggle to escape. When Vincent is captured as a British spy, Jane realizes that their honeymoon has been a ruse to give them a reason to be in Europe. He has been using a new technique to capture glamour folds in glass in order to send vital information back to England, where the court has great interest in the politcal unrest in the region. Jane is angry, not at Vincent's reason for going to Europe, but that he had lied to her. "Had I know, I would have come willingly. Do I not love King and Country as much?"

Left with no outward salvation, Jane is left to overcome her own delicate circumstances and use all the glamor at her disposal to rescue her husband from prison, and hopefully prevent her newly built marriage from getting stranded on the shoals of another country's war.