Helen Huntingdon is beautiful - very beautiful on her wearing a razor mask. Six months ago, her sister Jane revealed a fake plot to take control of the city.

Helen, who chose her beauty in her face - and covered her face with iron so as not to be captured, was delayed, her character was erased through physical faith. Not that Helen will think of some days.

Stuck in marriage with Alistair's excellent and dominant, living at the edges of her life, Jane secretly helps to remove the dangerous delusional beauty of the wealthy community of women who paid for it. But when the cruel procedure turns deadly, a missing gene becomes involved in the killing.

Meanwhile, the influential Alistair League, the so-called "copper hydra", is bringing humanity back to its right place, even to the point of destroying the dwarfs who were always allies. Helen is determined to find her lost sister, as well as to continue the good fight against obedience.

But when it is against her husband - and when she meets an obscure revolutionary - she is pushed to discover her commitment to community norms to do what is right. It may be more of its beauty at stake.

It may be her honor ... and her heart..

I want that book.