Liese has grown up in service to the Queen of Austria, her entire world confined to the rhythms of royal life. Then comes May 16—the day Marie Antoinette falls gravely ill and the Habsburg family reaches for its most secret solution: a medicine that alters appearance but not voice or personality, and a servant trusted enough to wear the queen's face. Liese is that servant. She is sent to the Palais de Versailles to impersonate the queen until her recovery. Outside the palace walls, France is moving toward revolution—and inside them, Liese's carefully contained world is about to break open.