But her plans are put in danger with her upcoming nuptials to a Parisian gentleman whose marriage fee might just save her family from ruin. Only Sophia Bellamy knows the Red Rook’s secret: that he is a she - and in fact Sophia herself. No one knows who the Red Rook is divine spirit? Ghost? Mortal man? But the premiere wants his head. There’s the Red Rook - a mysterious figure who spirits them away from their prison cells before they can be executed. But the wrongly condemned are not without hope. Convinced that technology was the cause of the Ancients’ downfall, the Premier of the Sunken City is executing aristocrats who (he claims) are funding laborers to recreate technology and “steal jobs from honest, hardworking common folk.” And like times of old, they are being put to the guillotine. Paris, now known as the Sunken City, is in the middle of another Revolution. The time of cars, computers, and other electronics has sunken into the past as mysterious, forbidden legends of how people once lived. The magnetic poles shifted way back in time, causing technology to malfunction and life as we once knew it to cease to exist.
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