No one looks kindly on the killer of a king.
"Fast-paced and refreshing." - SLJ, starred review
"The perfect blend of history and dark fantasy." - Mary Taranta, author
of Shimmer and Burn
"Thrilling, romantic, and addictive." - Rosalyn Eves, author of Blood
Rose Rebellion
"The only cure is to finish it." - Lyndsay Ely, author of Gunslinger
Girl
After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV,
seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her
mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they're not heroes of
the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself
included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but
her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save
the dissenters her mother vows to purge.
Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de
France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half
of the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be
in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant dauphin. Forced to
hide in the sewers beneath the city, Josse's hope of reclaiming Paris
seems impossible--until his path collides with Mirabelle's.
She's a deadly poisoner. He's a bastard prince. They are sworn enemies,
yet they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility
against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever
hope to succeed?
