The one Thing More
Pocketbok. Harper. 2001.
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Tonight they were returning their verdict, each emerging from the shadows to climb the rostrum for his moment in history. Cilie watched the man who stood on the rostrum now, the candlelight shining on his face as he stared out at the packed room, exhausted after hours of argument. He said only the one word, 'Death'.
I IT IS JANUARY 1793, and the new leaders of revolutionary France have just sentenced Louis XVI to death. The public believes justice will be done, but, in Paris, a small group of people fears for the future.
Célie's life has changed beyond recognition since the Revolution began. Reduced to working as laundress for the secretive Monsieur Bernave, she is inspired by his conviction that rescuing the king from the scaffold is the only way to save their beloved country. But just four days before the execution, Bernave is murdered. Now Célie and the fugitive she is protecting must risk everything to piece together his plan under the watchful eyes of the revolutionary guard, and in the shadow of Madame Guillotine.
