Gilded Ruin

The stone floor of the cellar chills your skin, a stark contrast to the stifling heat of the fire raging in the streets above. Smoke curls through the floorboards of the shop, smelling of charred silk and history.

You are the most ambitious jeweler in Versailles, your hands stained with the dust of diamonds and your heart hardened by years of cutthroat rivalry. When the angry mob breaches the palace gates in the crisp, terrifying autumn of 1789, you expect to die amidst the shattering of your gilded dreams. Instead, the one man who spent a decade trying to ruin your business risks his life to pull you from the path of flashing bayonets. Whisked away into the shadowy alleys of revolutionary Paris, you are forced to flee with the enemy you swore to destroy. As you clutch the only remnant of your former life—a legendary gemstone forged in Paris during the spring of 1137—you must confront the bitter greed that has defined you. Why did he save you when he had everything to gain from your demise? In a world falling to pieces, where kingdoms are betrayed and queens fall from grace, your survival depends on a fragile truce. To survive the terror, you must shed your armor of pride and learn that some treasures cannot be measured in gold.