Red Caps and Lilies

Red Caps and Lilies unfolds through the eyes of Marie Josephine, a girl who cares desperately about her dog Flambeau, her cousins, and whether she will be invited to a grand ball. Then Paris begins to rumble with something she cannot name, and the world she understands starts to tilt. Katharine Adams places readers inside the confusion and fear of a child who senses danger long before she understands what revolution means. The story follows her family as they must flee, suddenly and irrevocably, from the city they called home. This is not a book about politics or famous figures it is about how history crashes into the life of one sensitive girl, and how she finds unexpected courage when everything familiar is stripped away. Adams writes with tenderness about childhood's small heartbreaks and large discoveries, making the terror of 1790s Paris palpable through a lens of innocent bewilderment. The result is a historical novel that understands children are not small adults they experience the world's upheavals as personal earthquakes, with no less pain for not understanding the causes.