Chapter 11

Brielle's father owned all types of books in his attic. One section was dedicated for poetry, and there she learned that people like Shakespeare, Dickinson, and Kipling existed before the New World, long before the war of the Old was waged. Another section, the corner of the attic, was solely for cooking books. It was through them that she was able to present edible dishes to her master when the guards took her from the house.

Past her father's notes, the cooking books and the poetry,...