The Jewel
The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty.But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude.Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty—because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring.Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel's glittering facade: the cruelty, backstabbing, and hidden violence that have become the royal way of life.Violet must accept the ugly…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-223579-4
- EAN: 9780062235794
- Produktnummer: 19349400
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Reihenbandnummer: 01
- Sonstiges: Ab 14 J.
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Amy Ewing earned her MFA in Writing for Children at the New School and received her BFA at New York University. The Jewel started off as a thesis project but became her debut novel, the first in a New York Times bestselling trilogy. The other books are The White Rose and The Black Key. She lives in New York City. Visit Amy online at www.amyewingbooks.com or on Twitter @AmyEwingBooks.
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