The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

It’s 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse recounted
- Parental abandonment
- Panic attack
- Suicide recounted
- Alcohol consumption
- Drugging mentioned
- Stillbirth recounted
- Blood & physical injuries depiction
- Emesis
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a mother & father in a fire recounted
- Murder & attempted murder
- Physical assault
- Explosion
- Poisoning
- Kidnapping & hostage situation
- Blackmail
- Colonialism & slavery discussed
- Animal death mentioned