A powerful, engrossing story of a&#160;biracial&#160;heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers,&#160;as the daughter of a rich planter and an enslaved&#160;woman, enjoys the&#160;comforts&#160;of a lady in 1791 Saint-Domingue society. But while she was&#160;born to&#160;privilege, she was never fully accepted by island elites.&#160;After a violent rebellion begins the Haitian Revolution, Sylvie and her brother leave their family and old lives behind to flee unwittingly into another uprising&mdash;in austere and radical Paris. Sylvie quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with the revolutionaries themselves&mdash;most notably Maximilien Robespierre and his mistress, Corn&eacute;lie Duplay. &#160; As a rising leader and...

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