A thrilling tale of the elusive Hope Diamond's journey across Europe
during the French Revolution, with gorgeous, absorbing writing from
Jeannie Mobley!
Eighteen-year-old Claudie Durand's future is planned. She'll take over
the family inn, watch her much prettier younger sister, Mathilde,
married off to the butcher's son, and live out her days alone, without
the hope of finding a love of her own. Her mother ran off to the
cloister when she was young, and her gruff, abusive father has deemed
her unmarriageable, a nuisance, and only good for hard labor.
But outside their small village in Brittany, a revolution is brewing.
When the Army of the Republic seizes their town, and Claudie finds
herself at the center of the conspiracy, she and Mathilde must flee
their sheltered life and take up a cause that, up till now, had always
seemed like a distant conflict. As the sisters carry out a dangerous
mission for the resistance: delivering a precious item to the mysterious
Rooster of Rennes--Claudie's conscience is torn between the longing to
return to her predictable, lonely existence and the desire to carve out
a new future, reaching for the life--and love--she never dared dream of
but knew deep down she truly deserved.