Nisha knows her job. She works quietly behind the scenes searching for information for the Matron. In the City of a Thousand Dolls intrigue is running rampant and things come to a head when one girl "falls" from the rooftop and dies a violent death. Was it suicide? Was she murdered? Who would want to kill her? It's Nisha's job to find the clues and the important bits of information that may explain the mystery that surrounds them all.
The City of a Thousand Dolls itself is a mystery. Within its walls a thousand girls are learning the trades that will keep them alive. In the separate Houses girls are taught beauty, pleasure, music. Each girl is groomed to make her a capable mistress or estate wife or in the case of Tanaya, the wife of the Prince if he chooses to accept her.
How did Nisha get here? Where did she come from? Does she have any family... a real place to belong? The intrigue tightens amid the hints of romance, the magic, the mystery and the danger that draws closer and closer and closer until....how many girls will have to die?
359 pages Ages 14 and up (sexual innuendo)
978-0062121301
