THE GILDED WOLVES is a fantastic YA fantasy. What they find might change the course of history-but only if they can stay alive. Together, they will join Séverin as he explores the dark, glittering heart of Paris. To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. (Jan.*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* From New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi comes The Gilded Wolves, a novel set in Paris during a time of extraordinary change-one that is full of mystery, decadence, and dangerous desires.

Agent: Thao Le, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Kaleidoscopic narration complements the intricate, high-stakes plot and allows Chokshi to showcase numerous aspects of her richly imagined universe all the way to the closing cliff-hanger. Evocative writing, sumptuous set pieces, and vividly sketched, authentically flawed characters distinguish this immersive tale of found family and star-crossed romance. When an Order Patriarch named Hypnos tries to bribe Séverin into staging a dangerous heist by offering to help him reclaim his birthright, Séverin refuses-until Hypnos threatens to kill his friends. Now, in 1889, Séverin runs Paris’s illustrious L’Eden Hotel while working with a diverse crew of talented teenage rogues (a bisexual Spanish-Filipino historian, a Polish-Jewish engineer, an Indian cabaret star who can read objects’ histories) to steal Forged treasures from those who spurned him.

In 1879, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie attempted to assume his dead father’s position within the Order that protects Europe’s Babel fragment instead, the Order excommunicated him for having mixed blood.

In this spellbinding series opener from Chokshi ( A Crown of Wishes), Tower of Babel shards hidden around the world radiate energy that gifted individuals can use to “Forge”-magically manipulate-mind and matter.

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