/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:'Table Normal'; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:''; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;} The famous courtesan and exotic entertainer Margaretha Zelle (Mata Hari) reaches her middle years disillusioned with life until she meets and falls in love with the dashing Russian soldier Captain Vladimir de Masloff. It is the first time she has fallen in love and perhaps the first time she has met a man who did not simply desire her for sex. But the First World War has broken out and despite her best efforts both her life and Vadim come under threat. There are agents and double agents operating and they will stop at nothing to protect their identities. One such man is Commandant Georges Ladoux, a member of the Central Intelligence Section of The Deuxième Bureau. Margaretha needs all her guile to follow a path to safety, but will it be enough? In Eye of the Dawn Juanita Shepherd creates an absorbing historical novel of tragedy and romance around the final years of this most enigmatic of women.