Orphan. Purse snatcher. Pickpocket. Thief. Seventeen year-old Madeline Denham never wanted to become any of these things. Fate, however, hasn’t handed her any easy choices. She watched her father murder her mother and lost the rest of her family to disease. Now she’s doing whatever she can to survive on Victorian London’s dangerous streets.
Life becomes even more complicated when Maddie decides to snatch the wrong woman’s purse. Shot point blank with a drugged dart, Maddie awakens to an intriguing offer. She can have food, wealth, and status if she’ll consent to impersonate a deceased aristocrat’s daughter. She must also agree to become a spy for ‘Queen and country.’ How can an orphaned street urchin reject such a tantalizing offer? But what girl in her right mind would ever accept it?
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Life becomes even more complicated when Maddie decides to snatch the wrong woman’s purse. Shot point blank with a drugged dart, Maddie awakens to an intriguing offer. She can have food, wealth, and status if she’ll consent to impersonate a deceased aristocrat’s daughter. She must also agree to become a spy for ‘Queen and country.’ How can an orphaned street urchin reject such a tantalizing offer? But what girl in her right mind would ever accept it?
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
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