Rathmoria Emporie, 1719. Sparrow Stonehill, a street walker, is forced into life on the run when her house of employment is bombed overnight. Between a brutal oppressive leadership and an equally violent revolution - where is her place? What side is she on in the civil war? And what does Astrid Dace, the alluring general of the revolution, want with her? A love story set in a fictional industrial age dystopia; Bittersweet and Sparrow is the exciting first installment in the Waerdarei-series.