Daredevil

In 1918, a young woman named Roberta arrives in New York carrying a dangerous secret. The daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise, she's returning home after her father's death in the Great War, but she needs her uncle's help to save her small crippled brother Pierre. The catch: her uncle despises women and has already decided she's a nephew named Robert. So Roberta does the only thing that makes sense. She becomes him. What follows is a glittering masquerade of close calls, close quarters, and growing feelings. As "Robert," she secures war supplies for France, navigates high society, and finds herself falling for the Governor himself. But every day she lives as a man is a day the truth draws closer and the stakes grow higher. Pierre needs that surgery. Her heart needs something even more complicated. Daviess writes with sparkle and purpose in this WWI-era gem: a story about the absurd limits placed on women, the lies we tell to survive, and the terrifying possibility of being known.