Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years,...

Once a penniless orphan, Evelyn D'Orsay became a countess and a bride at the tender age of sixteen. But the flames of revolution forced her to flee France, with the aid of a notorious smuggler. Recently widowed and without any means, Evelyn knows she must retrieve the family fortune from France for her daughter's sake, but only one man can help her -- the smuggler she cannot forget. Jack Greystone has been smuggling since he was a small boy and he...

In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device-a...

1794: Paris seethes like a many-headed serpent in the Reign of Terror. Deception, betrayal, heart break and fear flourish. Outcasts Camille Laroche, a revolutionary's daughter, Ada, her runaway lover, Guil a deserter, and Al, an aristocrat, are the Battalion of the Dead. They choose their family, their future and they choose to fight, to cheat the guillotine of its bloody harvest, even as the blade falls. Their latest mission is a girl possessing...

The lives and destinies of four determined women are set against the splendor of the sumptuous Palace of Vrsailles through the reigns of France's most spectacular Bourbon kings.

"Marie Antoinette is about to become queen of France. While en route to marry King Louis XVI, her carriage is attacked by bloodthirsty zombies and everybody dies, except for Albert, Marie's twin brother!"--Back cover.