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That's why it's the perfect cover. In public Persis plays a foolish rich girl. In private she is the Wild Poppy, leader of a league of spies who risk life and limb on rescue missions to the neighboring island of Galatea.
Long ago the world and all it's inhabitants where nearly destroyed. A small number of people escaped by going into orbit around the planet. When they landed, two kingdoms developed. The working class on both islands was made of reduced. People with limited mental capacity due to generations of genetic manipulation. Know a woman named Persistence Helo has created cure, and there on no more reduced.
On Albion, the ruling class and the regs are learning to mix together and change centuries of class division. On Galatea, the ruling class remained intent on repressing the regs to maintain their own power. This has led to a violent revolution where Citizen Aldred is capturing aristos and subjecting them to chemical reduction and forced labor. To Citizen Aldred, all aristos are bad.
This is where Persis comes in. With a variety of disguises, the Wild Poppy and her team snatch aristos from Aldred's clutches. Things get complicated when Justen Helo, grandson of Persistence and foster son of Citizen Aldred himself shows up saying he has become disillusioned with the revolution.
At the urging of Princess Isla, Justen and Persis embark on false romance to explain his presence in Albion. The grows ever more dangerous for Persis as she must fool this boy even as she unexpected begins to develop feelings for him. Are Justen's motives as pure as he purports, or is he hiding secrets from Persis, too?
This companion novel to For Darkness Shows the Stars is a sci-fi adaption of one of my favorite classics, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It's full of adventure, romance, and betrayal. What's not to love?! I hope Diana Perfreund will continue the series based on my favorite classics!
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