Dimensions
150 x 217 x 38mm
The French Revolution meets modern day teenagers in this exciting and suspenseful teen debut from the author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot. For fans of Neal Shusterman and Jess Khoury. Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she's been looking for-she's been chosen to participate in an exclusive program, which includes an all-expense paid trip to France and a chance to explore the hidden underground Palais du Papillon, or the Palace of the Butterfly. Along with four other bright and talented teenagers, Anouk will be one of the first people to set foot in the palace in more than 200 years. But the expedition is not all it seems. The kids are drugged and left in an antechamber just outside the entrance to the palace, where their supposed benefactors are attempting to kill them. Anouk and the others just manage to escape into the palace itself, where they must team up in order to defeat the deadly booby traps, invisible monsters, and outside forces, all trying to make sure the teenagers never leave the palace. To top it off, Anouk possesses a scary resemblance to a 18th century portrait of a young woman named Aurelie that hangs in one of the gallerys, causing her to wonder if there is an even more sinister plot behind their entrapment than she originally thought. Bachmann's masterful writing switches between Anouk's flight through the palace and the struggles of Aurelie, who escaped the French Revolution by fleeing into the Palais du Papillon in 1789. A fast-paced, haunting adventure story from the author of The Peculiar.
