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The Monarch's Masquerade: The Daughters of Empire Series, Book 8 - Rose Sandy

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The most dangerous dance is the one where everyone wears a mask.

Once every decade, an invitation-only gala draws the world's elite to a secluded French château. No media. No phones. No security except that provided by the mysterious hosts.

The official purpose: a celebration of "cultural heritage preservation."

The real purpose, as the agency has long suspected: the most exclusive black-market auction of looted colonial treasures on Earth.

When three invitations arrive at headquarters—addressed to aliases the team has used on previous missions—it's clearly a trap. It's also their only chance to infiltrate an event that has operated in shadows for generations.

Behind ornate masks and flowing champagne, priceless artifacts stolen during colonial conquests change hands for billions. But this year's auction features something unprecedented: a collection so controversial its mere existence could trigger international incidents.

Plunged into a glittering world where every smile conceals calculation and every dance could be deadly, the women navigate a ballroom where any guest could be an enemy—or a mark:

Inaya assumes the role of a Gulf oil heiress, seducing her way into the confidence of the auction's aristocratic organizer—who seems unnervingly familiar with her real identity.

Sania works the event's sophisticated security systems from within, discovering that beneath the château lies a high-tech vault containing more than just treasures—it houses secrets that powerful nations would kill to acquire.

Adisa poses as staff, mapping escape routes and identifying players, only to recognize several faces from dossiers of presumed-dead operatives—including one who once saved her life.

As they circulate through waltzes and whispers, the team realizes this isn't just an auction—it's a gathering of a shadow society that has manipulated global politics since the colonial era. And they're celebrating something specific: the final phase of a plan decades in the making.

The masks come off at midnight. The bidding ends at dawn. And anyone still inside when the music stops becomes a permanent addition to the château's collection.

Some masquerades reveal the truth. Others ensure it's never seen again.

THE MONARCH'S MASQUERADE delivers sophisticated suspense and lethal glamour in a high-stakes thriller where danger lurks behind every tuxedo and designer gown. Perfect for fans of JAMES BOND, OCEANS 8, and KILLING EVE who crave intelligent espionage with deadly stakes beneath the glitter.

Every dance is a duel. Every smile conceals a weapon. And the most dangerous player at the ball is the one no one sees coming.

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ABOUT THE SERIES

Uncover Imperial Secrets with Rose Sandy’s Daughters of Empire Series

Daughters of Empire is a high-energy, female-led action-adventure and espionage series by Rose Sandy for readers who love smart heroines, global stakes, and stories that aren’t afraid to dig into the shadow side of empire. Set in the aftermath of the British Empire, the series follows three extraordinary women — Sania, an Indian cyber-sleuth, Adisa, an African field operative, and Inaya, a Middle Eastern corporate-intel expert — recruited into a covert taskforce to expose the crimes, thefts, and cover-ups hidden in imperial archives.

As they chase looted artefacts, suppressed files, offshore fortunes, and powerful families desperate to stay untouchable, the women must confront not only today’s enemies, but the ghosts of colonialism itself. Each book is a globetrotting mission featuring secret auctions, vault break-ins, diplomatic cover, ancient codes, and dangerous men with old money and older grudges.

SERIES READING ORDER

Daughters of Empire Series Reading Order

Book 1: Legacy of Loot
Book 2: Silent Pledge
Book 3: Shadows of the Sun
Book 4: The Sapphire Conspiracy
Book 5: The Paper Empire
Book 6: The Queen's Labyrinth
Book 7: Codes of the Colony
Book 8: Crimson Contracts
Book 9: The Monarch's Masquerade
Book 10: Sovereign Silhouettes
Book 11: The Colonial Compass
Book 12: The Coin's Other Side
Book 13: Guardians of the Glyphs
Book 14: The Empire's Echo
Book 15: Beneath the Banner
Book 16: The Crown's Chalice
Book 17: Museum of Mysteries
Book 18: Colonial Constellations
Book 19: Diary of the Dispossessed
Book 20: Waltz of the Winds
Book 21: The Opium Oracle
Book 22: Emissaries of the Enigma
Book 23: The Golden Galleon Gambit
Book 24: Realm of the Rune
Book 25: The Empire's Exile
Book 26: Viceroys' Vendetta
Book 27: The Colonial Clockwork
Book 28: The Empire's Eclipsed
Book 29: The Coded Chronicles
Book 30: Pawns of the Palace

• • Book 31: The Sovereign’s Syndicate

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Meet the Author

Rose Sandy is an international thriller and adventure author who writes high-velocity stories about brilliant women taking on the world’s most powerful institutions. From secret archives and looted artefacts to covert taskforces and royal scandals, her books blend espionage, history, and heart. She’s especially interested in the legacies of empire — who controlled the narrative, who profited, and whose stories were erased — and she puts those questions in the hands of fearless female protagonists.

In the Daughters of Empire series, Rose brings together three women from across the former British Empire — a hacker, a spy, and a corporate infiltrator — and lets them do what history never allowed: expose the truth. Her fiction is fast-paced, globally set, and rooted in real-world global happenings, but always centred on sisterhood, justice, and women who refuse to be silenced.

When she’s not plotting international conspiracies on the page, Rose champions diverse storytelling, mentors authors, and builds publishing experiences through Silver Gravity Entertainment.

Tropes You'll Love

female-led espionage thriller, artefact heist adventure, secret government taskforce, colonial-era mystery, found-family team of operatives, cyberhacker heroine, spy in high society, race-to-the-file plot, enemies in the British establishment, international action & intrigue, stolen heritage recovery, codebreaking and archives, billionaire cover-up, slow-burn attraction on the mission, women taking down empire from the inside

Perfect for fans of action-adventure with brains, Dan Brown–style secrets, slow-burn team dynamics, and international thrillers that centre women.