num_pages: 304
description: The sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut.Helen Huntingdon is beautifulso beautiful she has to wear an iron mask. Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. Too late for Helen who opted for fey beauty in her faceand now has to cover her face with iron so she wont be taken over her personality erased by the bodiless fey.Not that Helen would mind that some days. Stuck in a marriage with the wealthy and controlling Alistair she lives at the edges of her life secretly helping Jane remove the dangerous fey beauty from the wealthy society women who paid for it. But when the chancy procedure turns deadly Jane goes missingand is implicated in the murder.Meanwhile Alistairs influential clique Copperheadwhose emblem is the poisonous copperhead hydrais out to restore humans to their rightful place even to the point of destroying the dwarvven who have always been allies.Helen is determined to find her missing sister as well as continue the good fight against the fey. But when that pits her against her own husbandand when she meets an enigmatic young revolutionaryshes pushed to discover how far shell bend societys rules to do whats right. It may be more than her beauty at stake. It may be her honor...and her heart.
language: English
title: Copperhead
publisher: Tor Books