"Here," he said, kicking the ground with his foot, "at this very spot, the French people took what was rightfully theirs. They tore down the symbol of the King's power. And here..." he crouched down in front of me and lifted up my chin with his finger. "This is where the monarchy is going to end once and for all." *** Seventeen year-old Lucie Freeman never thought her senior year was going to be like this. Whisked away to France for her mother's job, Lucie finds herself an entire ocean away from everything she's ever known- and that's just the beginning. When a dark secret from her great-grandmother's childhood emerges, Lucie is launched into a search for the truth about her family's past. As the old story unravels, she finds herself entangled in a web of lies that bring her dangerously close to the same fate and the shocking realization that trusting too easily makes way for the biggest betrayal of all.