*First rule in this line of business: don't sleep with the client.* My name's Kate Kane, and when an eight-hundred-year-old vampire prince came to me with a case, I should have told her no. But I've always been a sucker for a femme fatale. It always goes the same way. You move too fast, you get in
Velvet
β Scribed by Mary Hooper
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2011;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 176 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Rose is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Rose is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Rose is noticed by Madame X, a famed medium, who asks Rose to come to work for her. Rose is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But soon Rose realises that Madame X is not all that she says she is, and Rose's very life is in danger . . .
A romantic and thrillingly exciting new novel from an acclaimed and much-loved historical writer for teens.
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