
In the night, a boy breaks into her bedroom.

She is taken to the Russian embassy where she is questioned but eventually let go. She eventually leaves the embassy, where she slips and accidentally punches the Russian ambassador. She initially does not recognize him but has a flashback of them playing together as young children. She also meets her brother Jamie's old friend, Alexei Volkov, who is the son of a senior Russian Embassy worker. Trying to escape the embassy, she briefly meets a German girl who scares her into staying inside. Chancellor, a senior woman working there. She immediately takes a disliking to the embassy and Ms. Grace's father, James, sends her to return to Adria to live in the American Embassy with her Grandfather, the ambassador. Grace remembers the face of a man with a large scar who was on the scene of Caroline's death, and believes he was responsible for the murder. Shortly after arriving back to the US, Grace's mother Caroline was killed in what she believes was a murder, but is told was a fire. Grace Blakely is a sixteen-year-old American who grew up between her native country and the fictional European nation of Adria. Because on Embassy Row, the countries of the world all stand like dominoes, and one wrong move can make them all fall down. and if she doesn’t stop it, Grace isn’t the only one who will get hurt. But they can’t control Grace–no more than Grace can control what she knows or what she needs to do. Not Alexei, the Russian boy next door who is keeping an eye on Grace for reasons she neither likes nor understands.Įverybody wants Grace to put on a pretty dress and a pretty smile, blocking out all her unpretty thoughts. Not her new friends, who all live on Embassy Row. Not her grandfather, a powerful ambassador.

Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.Īs certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her–so there’s no one she can completely trust. Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:ģ. (its also like the best book of all time prove me wrong)

It was released Janu(hardcover and e-book) and Decem(paperback).

It is the first book in the Embassy Row Series, followed by See How They Run, then Take the Key and Lock Her Up. All Fall Down is a young-adult fiction novel by Ally Carter.
