The Bath Stone

Based in decadent Bath in 1762, at a time when the British and French were fighting for control of Bengal, the tale unfolds of Major Irving, a Foreign Office official, tasked with a mission of national importance during the state visit of the Prince of Bengal.
Rose Stanhope, lodging with her promiscuous aristocrat cousin, becomes inextricably involved in his world while trying to establish a controversial agency. With a vicious prostitute murderer at large and French spies attempting to thwart the British at every turn, this historical thriller throws Irving and Rose into a frantic world of espionage, sex, betrayal and violence as they fight to secure the future of the British Empire in India.