Gilded in Vengeance

Lyssa Mia Smith

• Publisher: Storytide
• eBook ISBN:
  9780063239654
• Year: 2025

Revenge meets the Gilded Age in this thrilling YA fantasy set among the glittering magical elite of late-1800s New York society, from Revelle author Lyssa Mia Smith.

Two girls attended a magical ball, but one was never seen again.

At least that’s what those who betrayed her believed.

Two years after being framed for fraud by the Society of the Charmed, an exclusive club of New York’s wealthiest—and most magical—citizens, Emmy Vallillo wastes away in prison, utterly alone.

Until her cell door bursts open, revealing Jack Fontaine, one of the Society’s favorite sons, now imprisoned for a crime he swears he didn’t commit. They make a deal: He’ll help Emmy escape if she helps destroy those who’ve wronged them.

Together, the two break free and, using Emmy’s magic to transform their appearances, they soon become the Society’s new darlings.Now their enemies want to dine with them. Attend lavish balls with them. Marry them. But ruining lives requires Emmy to trust Jack with hers, despite his dark secrets—and the infuriating attraction between them.

When another betrayal brings their enemies to their doorstep, Emmy must choose: finish exacting revenge, or give up the money, the magic, and her safety in this cutthroat world for the most treacherous thing of all—love.

• Secret Society: Posing as new darlings of the elite, Emmy and Jack use transformation magic to infiltrate the glittering and treacherous Society of the Charmed in Gilded Age New York.
• Enemies to Allies: She’s forced to team up with Jack Fontaine, the infuriating son of one of the Society’s most powerful families. He has secrets of his own, but their simmering attraction is the most dangerous one of all.
• Revenge Fantasy: After two years in a magical prison for a crime she didn’t commit, Emmy is hellbent on destroying the high-society elites who framed her and murdered her father.
• Betrayal and Backstabbing: The plot against Emmy was orchestrated by the one person she trusted most. Now, to get her justice, she’ll have to play a dangerous game where everyone is an enemy in disguise.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Contents
• Invitation
• Prologue
• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Five
• Six
• Seven
• Eight
• Nine
• Ten
• Eleven
• Twelve
• Thirteen
• Fourteen
• Fifteen
• Sixteen
• Seventeen
• Eighteen
• Nineteen
• Twenty
• Twenty-One
• Twenty-Two
• Twenty-Three
• Twenty-Four
• Twenty-Five
• Twenty-Six
• Twenty-Seven
• Twenty-Eight
• Twenty-Nine
• Thirty
• Thirty-One
• Thirty-Two
• Thirty-Three
• Thirty-Four
• Thirty-Five
• Thirty-Six
• Thirty-Seven
• Thirty-Eight
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Also by Lyssa Mia Smith
• Copyright
• About the Publisher