Before He Was RedBefore He Was Red

"Ottoman Empire, 1876. Amid the political turmoil of the 'summer of three sultans,' Belgian glove-maker Flora Cordier secretly marries the future Sultan Abdulhamid II. Weeks later, he seizes the throne. She vanishes without a trace. Before He Was Red reimagines this forgotten episode in Ottoman history, when palace intrigue and European great power games collide in a world on the brink of the modern age. As the empire falters, Flora and Hamid fight for a future of their own, caught in a struggle between love and the forces of history determined to keep them apart."--