First published 2016
Edmond Dantès stands on the cusp of everything: a prestigious naval promotion, marriage to his beloved Mercedes, a future bright with promise. Then betrayal shatters his world. Framed by jealous rivals and imprisoned in the brutal Château d'If, Dantès loses fourteen years of his life to a dark stone cell. But imprisonment is not the end—it's his transformation. After a miraculous escape and discovery of a massive treasure, he reinvents himself as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. With surgical precision, he constructs an elaborate plan to dismantle the lives of those who destroyed him, moving through Paris's highest social circles like a calculated phantom. Each of his enemies will fall, but the price of revenge is steeper than he knows.
Genres: adventure, action, 21st-century, cyberpunk
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Period: 19th-century, 21st-century
1276 pages · Paperback · Penguin Classics