Paris, 1793. The girl they buried has come for the people who killed her family.
Paoletta Cadoville was fifteen when the bomb came through the window. It killed her mother, her father and her brother.. It took her eye and burned her face. When she woke, her name was already on a tombstone.
The people who ordered it think she's dead. She means to keep it that way.
Under a false name, Paoletta slips into Paris as an actress, playing Liberty for the new Republic by day and listening at the edges of its most dangerous rooms by night. Every smile is a lie. Every ally has a price. One wrong word and she won't need a grave, and the Reign of Terror is only beginning.
She is hunting a secret brotherhood. The brotherhood is hunting her. In a city where anyone can be sent to the guillotine, only one of them can win.
A dark, violent historical thriller of revenge in 18th‑century France: The Count of Monte Cristo with a scarred young woman at its centre.
Perfect for readers of Kate Quinn and Sarah Penner, and anyone who likes their historical fiction dark.
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