First published 2015
Sophia Bellamy faces an arranged marriage to René Hasard to rescue her family from financial disaster. The wedding represents their final hope for survival in the Commonwealth. But Sophia guards a dangerous secret. She operates as the Red Rook, the phantom rescuer who liberates prisoners from the Sunken City's revolution and leaves only crimson feathers behind. The former Paris has become a killing ground where opponents of the new regime meet the guillotine. When the hunt for the Red Rook reaches Sophia directly, she learns that René conceals his own mysteries. Her fiancé proves far more complex than she imagined. The rescue missions grow more perilous as Sophia and René circle each other in an intricate dance of deception. Each guards secrets that could destroy them both. Their engagement becomes a battlefield of hidden motives and competing loyalties.
Genres: historical-fiction, adventure, 19th-century, alternate-history
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, hidden-identity
Setting: Commonwealth, Sunken City, Paris
Period: 19th-century
456 pages · Hardcover · Scholastic Press