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Notre Dame
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Diversity in fiction is not rewriting history—it’s restoring it.

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As a young woman of color, Zoe Sivak advocates for diverse stories and characters in historical fiction. In her writing, she strives to explore famous male figures through the lens of the women beside them–women who could have existed, even if history left them behind.

 

When not engrossed in historical research, Zoe is devoted to improving healthcare for woman and children. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she received her juris doctorate and master in public health. 

 

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Books

Books

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Now Available in Paperback!

from Berkley|Random House

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Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a damning reminder of her father’s infidelity with an enslaved woman. After a violent slave uprising begins the Haitian Revolution, Sylvie and her brother leave their parents and old lives behind to flee unwittingly into another uprising—austere and radical Paris. Sylvie quickly becomes enamored with the aims of the Revolution, as well as with the revolutionaries themselves—most notably Maximilien Robespierre and his mistress, Cornélie Duplay.
 
As a rising leader and abolitionist, Robespierre sees an opportunity to exploit Sylvie’s race and abandonment of her aristocratic roots as an example of his ideals, while the strong-willed Cornélie offers Sylvie guidance in free thought and a safe harbor. Sylvie battles with her past complicity in a slave society and her future within this new world order as she finds herself increasingly tugged between Robespierre's ideology and Cornélie's love.

 

When the Reign of Terror descends, she must decide whether to become an accomplice while another kingdom rises on the bones of innocents…or risk losing her head. 

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For book inquiries, please contact my agent,

Amy Bishop-Wycisk

Trellis Literary Management

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For publicity/event inquiries, please contact:

Lauren Burnstein

Penguin Random House

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