Description

From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the fastpacedimpressive Kirkus Reviews second book in the captivating Foul Lady Fortune duology following an immortal assassin in 1930s Shanghai as she races to save her country and her love

Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai as is the evernearing threat of a Japanese invasion

Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy shes been exposed With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune shes barely left her bedroom in weeks plotting her next course of action after Orion was taken and his memories of Rosalind wiped Though their marriage might have been a sham his absence hurts her more than any physical wound She wont rest until she gets him back

But with her identity in the open the task is near impossible The only way to leave the city and rescue Orion is under the guise of a national tour Its easy to convince her superiors that the countryside needs unity more than ever and who better than an immortal girl to stir pride and strength into the people

When the tour goes wrong however everything Rosalind once knew is thrown up in the air Taking refuge outside Shanghai old ghosts come into the open and adversaries turn to allies To save Orion they must find a cure to his mothers traitorous invention and take this dangerous chemical weapon away from impending foreign invasionbut the clock is ticking and if Rosalind fails its not only Orion she loses but her nation itself