Clock Master's Daughter — Patrice McDonough

City of Light, City of Darkness

In 1789, Sophie de Courtenay, daughter of a village clock master, is thrust into alien the glittering Paris of her aristocratic husband and the smoldering Paris of desperate people on the brink of revolt. Sophie's friend, Therese, feels the pull of two worlds as the life she thought she wanted and the forbidden love she finds hard to resist.

Unbreakable bonds help the friends survive as Paris becomes a powder keg waiting for its match. Men storm the Bastille; women, armed and angry, march on the Palace of Versailles. The match is lit.

The “City of Light” becomes a city of terrifying darkness as it descends into the savagery of the Reign of Terror and Sophie's husband is jailed as an enemy of the people. Determined to rescue him, Sophie devises a plan as intricate as the inner workings of a clock. And in a race against time, the clock master's daughter pits her skills against the blade of “Madame Guillotine.”