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The Protégée

Erica Ridley

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English
Delacorte Press
10 June 2025
A working-class French young woman would kill to become assistant to Paris's top modiste, but she must first seek vengeance against those responsible for the death of her family, in this thrilling historical horror from New York Times bestselling author Erica Ridley!

Eighteen-year-old Angélique dreams of designing extravagant gowns like the ladies in the bourgeoise wear to balls and soirées. Because she’s working-class, Angélique knows that her life will, instead, be spent dyeing silk for a living. That is, until her parents and younger sibling are killed in the sweatshop where they’ve toiled. Now orphaned, and with another sister to protect, Angélique vows vengeance against the factory owner growing richer by treating his employees as disposable.

To improve her station, Angélique takes a position as a junior seamstress for Paris's top modiste. Though she's bullied for being poor and her meager salary isn't enough to pay rent, she refuses to give in. Her sister and crush, a handsome, immigrant shoemaker, won’t allow it. Then the modiste proposes a contest to win the well-paid, coveted assistant position. Angélique would do anything to earn the career of her dreams. What’s a little arsenic between girls after all?

As Angélique outshines--and outlives--the competition, she also wields her newfound privilege and power to exact revenge on those who ruined her family and blossoms into a new role: Paris’s greatest protégée.
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Imprint:   Delacorte Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   433g
ISBN:   9780593897966
ISBN 10:   059389796X
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 12 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Erica Ridley is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of witty, feel-good historical romance novels, included The Wild Wynchesters series. When she's not reading or writing romances, Erica can be found eating couscous in Morocco, getting hopelessly lost in the middle of Budapest, or zip-lining through rainforests in Costa Rica, where she currently resides. The Protégée is her YA debut.

Reviews for The Protégée

“With an innocent heroine turned serial killer, The Protégée is a sharp, diabolically dark dip into the cutthroat world of nineteenth-century fashion, reminiscent of a film noir, that will leave you questioning the concept of morality. A categorically chilling page-turner.” —Amalie Howard, USA Today bestselling author of Lady Knight “A bloody and brilliant takedown of the bourgeoisie, with plot twists as finely crafted as its protagonist’s dresses. Revenge has never looked so chic.” —Lydia Gregovic, USA Today bestselling author of The Monstrous Kind “Ridley stitches together a dazzling tale of 1850s Paris, where the glamour of the fashion world collides with the sharp edge of class wars and revenge. With every page, the tension and the body count rise. Well-researched, Inventive, and gripping.” —Bryce Moore, author of The Perfect Place to Die ""Sumptuous, with a seam of dark humor and in the spirit of Dumas, The Protégée shows what happens when poor, sweet, talented girls are twisted by grief to turn deadly, vengeful, and defiant.” —Ellie Marney, New York Times bestselling author of None Shall Sleep


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