In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise, upending a world order which has long oppressed them. Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and she marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that...

"A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a damning reminder of her father's infidelity with an enslaved...