The Bastards' Paradise

How many lives they have lived, if only for a night!


Puppets and peril, lonely streets and glittering salons--Rupert and Istvan have played 

through it all, and sought to make the road their lasting home. But that road winds 

through the past--including the brothel called the Rose and Poppy--while threats and 

invitations abound: a scheming social climber, a lovesick exile, the Mercury Theatre 

closed . . . or is it? Old friends from afar join comrades in the here-and-now, as power, 

love, and fate combine to play out the final chapter of the story of a lifetime.

The curtains rose with UNDER THE POPPY, the passionate play continued in THE 

MERCURY WALTZ. Now Kathe Koja brings the POPPY trilogy to a stunning and 

masterful conclusion in THE BASTARDS' PARADISE.


"The final act in a grand epic: I loved this book. It broke my heart and made me cry, 

but it also made me grin, and shake my head, and turn the pages faster . . . Koja is a 

phenomenal writer."  - Cat Hellisen, author of BEASTKEEPER