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From the website of the author, Christine Trent:
This story follows the adventures of Marguerite du Georges, who inherits The Queens Dollmaker shop. After her young husband is killed in a riot, she abandons the doll shop and London to travel around the country as a waxworking apprentice to the great Madame Tussaud, who has moved her exhibition over from France. Marguerite's new career nearly melts down when she assists the English crown in a scheme to create wax effigies of important political figures to fool Napoleon into thinking that England is negotiating treaties and alliances with other countries, when in fact something else entirely is happening. A French spy catches on to Marguerite's game and Napoleon's long grasp puts her in mortal danger.
This story follows the adventures of Marguerite du Georges, who inherits The Queens Dollmaker shop. After her young husband is killed in a riot, she abandons the doll shop and London to travel around the country as a waxworking apprentice to the great Madame Tussaud, who has moved her exhibition over from France. Marguerite's new career nearly melts down when she assists the English crown in a scheme to create wax effigies of important political figures to fool Napoleon into thinking that England is negotiating treaties and alliances with other countries, when in fact something else entirely is happening. A French spy catches on to Marguerite's game and Napoleon's long grasp puts her in mortal danger.
