Cake Eater

"With a love story for the ages, this vivid tale takes the history we know and recasts it into an exciting, technicolor, future world that challenges what we know here in the present, and how we know it. I loved it! I couldn't put it down!" —Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe trilogy Decadent, thrilling, and romantic, this Black Mirror-esque retelling of the reign of one Marie Antoinette is perfect for fans of The Belles and American Royals. The year is 3070, and Marie Antoinette has just arrived at the glittering, thrilling palace of Versailles to marry the shy, soft-spoken Louis-Auguste. But beneath the luxurious world lies a sinister underbelly and an uncompromising elite who want to keep Marie and Louis pawns in a deadly game. Will history repeat itself? Or will these doomed lovers outwit their enemies and escape their grisly fate? Cake Eater will take readers to a dazzling world full of breathless luxuries, deadly secrets, and a thrilling romance that attempts to rewrite history itself. She has a million followers on social media. She uses her fashion-forward eye to pick the perfect angle and filter on every photo. Shes iconic. Shes a trend-setter. Shes Marie Antoinette, the year is 3070, and shes arrived in the Franc Kingdom to marry the prince, secure an alliance, and rake in likes from her fans. Versailles is not the perfect palace Maries seen on The Apps. Her life is a maze of pointless rules, and the court watches her every move for mistakes. Her shy husband Louis is more interested in horses and computer-hacking than producing heirs. Versailles seems like a dream full of neon-lit statues, handsome android soldiers, and parties till dawn. Under the surface, its a creepy den of secrets: surveillance in Maries bedroom, censored news feeds, disappearing courtiers. When Marie and Louis become king and queen long before theyre ready to rule, any efforts to aid their suffering subjects are stamped out by the mega-corporations of the First Estate. Between riots in Paris and image-wrecking social media firestorms, Marie cant afford to lose her head. Using her social media savvy and Louis hacking knowledge, they try to fix their reputations and change their kingdom for the better, but the royals may find its already too late. Theyre ruling over the end of an era. 3070. Marie Antoinette has arrived in the Franc Kingdom to marry the prince, secure an alliance, and rake in likes from her fans. Versailles is not the perfect palace Marie has seen on The Apps: her life is a maze of pointless rules, and the court watches her every move for mistakes. Her shy husband Louis-Auguste is more interested in horses and computer-hacking than producing heirs. There are handsome android soldiers, parties till dawn-- but also surveillance in Marie's bedroom, and disappearing courtiers. Between riots in Paris and image-wrecking social media firestorms, Marie must use her social media savvy and Louis' hacking knowledge to fix their reputations and change their kingdom for the better... but may already be out of time In the year 3070, App sensation, style icon, and social influencer Marie Antoinette arrives in Versailles to marry Louis-Auguste and together, after witnessing people outside of their gilded world suffering and starving, risk everything to set things right