Kiss from a Stranger

Author’s Note

Author’s NoteThe background of this novel is accurate and mostly from The Years of Victory by Sir Arthur Bryant.

Bonaparte’s spies were everywhere and he did know about ‘The Secret Expedition’. What he did not know was where it was going.

Nelson’s brilliant perception took him West following the French Fleet. It was a shot in the dark and, as he said to his secretary,

“If they are not gone to the West Indies, I shall be blamed! To be burnt in effigy or to be buried in Westminster Abbey is my alternative.”

He was right, and the same year he won the Battle of Trafalgar, saying as he lay dying, “Thank God I have done my duty.”

Then his spirit passed and he became “One with England and the Sea”.