*A Richard and Judy Book Club title* In 1875‎,‎ Sisi‎,‎ the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies‎.‎ Beautiful‎,‎ athletic and intelligent‎,‎ Sisi has everything ‎- except happiness‎.‎ Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband‎,‎ Franz Joseph‎,‎ Sisi comes to England to hunt‎.‎ She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton‎,‎ the only man in Europe who can outride her‎.‎ Ten years younger than her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte‎,‎ Bay has everything to lose by falling for a woman who can never be his‎.‎ But Bay and the Empress are as reckless as each other‎,‎ and their mutual attraction is a force that cannot be denied‎.‎