Seraphina de Valois: A cunning, manipulative beauty with the memories of a ghost; she uses seduction as a weapon and wears innocence like a mask. Duke Lucien Morel : The grand spymaster of France, the only man who sees the darkness behind her beautiful eyes and falls for the monster, not the girl.
I remembered the cold bite of the guillotine blade against my neck; that was how my first life ended. I was the naive mistress who loved a King and died for his sins. But when I opened my eyes, the air didn't smell of blood and sawdust—it smelled of lavender and expensive powder. It was 1780 again. I was eighteen, untouched, and unloved. This time, I wouldn't be the victim in their game of thrones. I smoothed the silk of my dress, looking at the treacherous courtiers below. I wouldn't just survive the revolution; I would own the men who started it.