Added by: flame333 | Karma: 381.35 | Fiction literature | 18 February 2012
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Torn (2011)
Everyone has secrets. Even best friends.
The first book in the Torn series
Swirling black descends like ravens, large enough to block the glow of the streetlights. A dull roar starts like a train on the '-L', a far-away rumbling that grows louder as it pulls closer, until it's directly overhead and you feel it in your chest, except this doesn't pass you by. Verity, white-faced and eyes blazing, shouts through the din, "Run, Mo!"
At the age of fifteen, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles. Frivolous and reckless, she flouts the strict and demanding etiquette of the glittering court, and discovers the true nature of love, hate and jealousy. But the clouds of revolution are overhead, and Marie Antoinette, who only wishes to enjoy life, learns too late that the price of her enjoyment is very high…
