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A working-class French girl would kill to become assistant to Paris’s top modiste, but she must first seek vengeance against those responsible for the death of her family…
Eighteen-year-old AngĂ©lique dreams of designing extravagant gowns like the ladies in the bourgeoise wear to balls and soirĂ©es. Because she’s working-class, AngĂ©lique knows that her life will, instead, be spent dyeing silk for a living. That is, until her parents and younger sibling are killed in the sweatshop where they’ve toiled. Now orphaned, and with another sister to protect, AngĂ©lique vows vengeance against the factory owner growing richer by treating his employees as disposable.
To improve her station, AngĂ©lique takes a position as a junior seamstress for Paris’s top modiste. Though she’s bullied for being poor and her meager salary isn’t enough to pay rent, she refuses to give in. Her sister and crush, a handsome, immigrant shoemaker, won’t allow it. Then the modiste proposes a contest to win the well-paid, coveted assistant position. AngĂ©lique would do anything to earn the career of her dreams. What’s a little arsenic between girls after all?
As AngĂ©lique outshines–and outlives–the competition, she also wields her newfound privilege and power to exact revenge on those who ruined her family and blossoms into a new role: Paris’s greatest protĂ©gĂ©e.
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