The Better to See

Vermeille Greene hates her missing father, the French, and acting like a lady. When she helps a neighbor after a frightening break-in, all three are suddenly making more of an appearance in her life than she would like. Kidnapped twice over and given experimental drugs in the service of a war she never agreed to fight, she must find a way back to her mother and her life.

Sarah Blake is proud of her position as a civilian soldier. After her scientist brother is accused of treason, however, she begins to question her allies as well as her own moral high ground. Fleeing across the ocean, she must rescue a woman she's never met before her brother's research is used to horrifying purpose.