Rook by Sharon Cameron

An entertaining, exciting and engaging retelling of Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel, with its own dramatic twist.

Recommended age: 16 – 18; Adult.

There is nothing new under the sun. A disaster has befallen the world, and the majority of the world has turned away from technology, for the ancients’ dependence upon it is what destroyed them. After many long years of strife, the world has regained peace at last.  Now horrors are occurring in the Sunken City, which was once known as Paris. The wealthy and influential are being put to death underneath the Razor, and the poor are reduced to a bloodthirsty mob. But hope exists for the helpless in the form of a mysterious hero—the Red Rook, also known as Sophia Bellamy. Sophia has her own predicament; she must marry a fool with a fortune to save her family’s lands. Yet all is not as it seems, and that is a good thing. Soon the stakes—for both Sophia and the Red Rook—will have never been higher.

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