The Shadow Cipher (York, #1)

by Laura Ruby

Plus, I am a grown woman and I can say whatever I want. It’s one of the few perks of adulthood.”

“What happened to her?” he said. But he could have been talking about so many people—Ava Oneal, for sure, but also all those other people who were servants and secretaries and wives and spies and prisoners and lunatics, all those people that history forgot or hid or deliberately erased, because they were not a part of the story that history wanted to tell.