The Conspiracy: The Cartoonist and the Contessa — Suzette Hollingsworth

Against all reason, the Contessa of Silviatti is in love with her husband, a charismatic Italian nobleman who makes a game of bedding women.

Heartbroken, Sophia does what any self-respecting royal still in love with her husband would do: she spies on him.

While shadowing the count, a public horror encroaches upon her private nightmare: Adolf Hitler. Traveling in the same circles as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, Sophia de Bonifácio, Contessa of Silviatti and the former princess of Spain, feels the call of duty and sets aside her personal grief, putting her abilities to work for the Allied cause. She enters a career of espionage as a double agent with her newfound skills and takes on the code name of Strega (Witch).

Ian Manchester, Viscount of Saint-Cloud, paints portraits of the aristocracy and is the disappointment of his conservative British political family. No one suspects that Saint-Cloud is the anti-Nazi underground political cartoonist The Shadow Knight--or that he is an Allied spy.

The Shadow Knight showcases the Contessa of Silviatti, believed to be a Fascist, in his cartoons. To her horror, the war effort is threatened as she is cast into the limelight, compromising her cover, her position as an insider in the Third Reich, and her family's safety.

She has no choice but to kill him.