OLDER FICTION
Elliott, Patricia

The Pale Assassin

(3) YA Eugénie barely notices the French Revolution happening around her--until her aristocratic family loses everything. While her royalist older brother, Armand, schemes to save Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Eugénie braves soldiers, spies, and traitorous friends to get herself and Armand safely out of the country. Elliott ably evokes the tumult of both the revolution and Eugénie's emotions. Timeline.

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