In a world where people pay to receive body mod services from the Belles—artisans of Beauty who use this arcana in their blood to transform the naturally greyscale populace into beatific glamazons in full color—everything is a mask, and polite society the most so. Come for the decadent descriptions of food and luxury fashion, stay for the diabolical players in this high-stakes game of political intrigue. Deceptively dark, this novel is a reminder that beauty most often wears a face of lies.
