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London, 1895.
A pretty housemaid falls in love with a heartless upper-class young man, starting a chain of events leading to a scandal and a trial that the whole of England watches with bated breath.
For teen / YA readers 13 +
In the time of the French Revolution, the daughter of an aristocrat inadvertently switches places with her lady's maid, who unbeknownst to her is her illegitimate half-sister. The story follows the separate paths of the two girls as they struggle to survive in the violent and unpredictable world of the Revolution, both in fear of the ever-present threat of the guillotine.
