Gilded in Vengeance
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Revenge meets the Gilded Age in this thrilling YA fantasy set among the glittering magical elite of late-1800s New York society, from Revelle author Lyssa Mia Smith.
Two girls attended a magical ball, but one was never seen again.
At least that’s what those who betrayed her believed.
Two years after being framed for fraud by the Society of the Charmed, an exclusive club of New York’s wealthiest—and most magical—citizens, Emmy Vallillo wastes away in prison, utterly alone.
Until her cell door bursts open, revealing Jack Fontaine, one of the Society’s favorite sons, now imprisoned for a crime he swears he didn’t commit. They make a deal: He’ll help Emmy escape if she helps destroy those who’ve wronged them.
Together, the two break free and, using Emmy’s magic to transform their appearances, they soon become the Society’s new darlings.Now their enemies want to dine with them. Attend lavish balls with them. Marry them. But ruining lives requires Emmy to trust Jack with hers, despite his dark secrets—and the infuriating attraction between them.
When another betrayal brings their enemies to their doorstep, Emmy must choose: finish exacting revenge, or give up the money, the magic, and her safety in this cutthroat world for the most treacherous thing of all—love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a sizzling fantasy set within an alternate 1880s New York City, the secretive Society for the Charmed keeps a tight rein on all things magical. Having been framed for fraud—presumably by her best friend Grace Montgomery—and forced to watch her beloved father's murder, as detailed in a prologue, 18-year-old Emmy Vallillo has spent more than two years magically bound in Grimsbane Prison. Making a deal with similarly incarcerated roguish Society heir Jack Fontaine, Emmy escapes and, recruited by Jack, becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to use her unique ability to transmute objects and faces to facilitate false identities and take down the Society from the inside. Armed with a powerful relic that amplifies her conjury, Emmy ingratiates herself into the upper echelons of the Society in order to ruin the meteoric rise of Grace, whose all-consuming ambition leaves a trail of death and betrayal in her wake. As Emmy's allies close in on their own targets, she must fight her growing attraction to Jack and decide what she's willing to do to exact revenge. Lightly touching on themes of class anxiety and anti-immigrant sentiments of the period, Smith (Revelle) intertwines steamy romance with a rollicking revenge plot set in a glamorous Gilded Era magical high society. Emmy is of Italian descent; Jack has French ancestry. Ages 14–up. Agents: Lauren Spieller, Folio Literary.
