Befriending Zed and Jasmine could be the best or worst thing Suzanne has ever done. Nothing is what it seems with her two friends, and as Suzanne finds herself witnessing things that she would otherwise have thought impossible, she starts demanding answers. She doesn’t really expect to get them in the way she does, though. From being ambushed to kidnapped to betrayed, Suzanne sees another side to her two friends. A side that has been watching over her since she was a baby. A side that reveals secrets about herself and her family – her real family. A side that turns her life upside down beyond repair. [PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN IN THE STARS] Prologue: She stood on the rooftops, a black silhouette against the late afternoon sky, her eyes fixed on the houses below her. Jet black hair loose and eyes bearing deadly determination, she stared at one house in particular. That one house, where the girl was cooking with her mum. She tried to memorise the girl's features. Roughly fourteen or fifteen, with masses of black curls tied back into a ponytail. Eyes fixed on the pan of cooking fish. Her lips curved up in a grin. After a minute, when the girl's face was engraved in her memory, she nodded to herself. Then a twist, a jump, and she was gone.

1817. Murdered parents. Stolen dukedom. A broken girl. Rich, spoilt 15-year-old Bessandra is thrown into a world of uncertainty and survival when her rich parents die. She is sent to her poor aunt in London and learns the true bitterness of the world, which she had been shielded from her whole life. With her life changing faster than she thought possible, Bess finds herself with an alcoholic uncle to avoid, a fragile aunt to look after and a reputation to sustain amongst the boys who find her weak and easy on the dark streets of London. As she starts to fight back and learn the ways of London's underworld, she's thrown into a world where enemies could be your friends, your friends could be your assassins and your inner self could be the only true enemy. She soon learns that she herself is a powerful tool that she can use against her enemies. And even more so because she's a girl. With a sharp tongue, knives up her sleeves and watchful eyes, Bess soon finds herself becoming more powerful. But just when she finally thinks she's figured out who's side she's on, she realizes she's only surrounded by lies, secrets and danger. And it's only when she's truly lost that she realizes the biggest lie of all.