Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but
newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her
in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling
series.
November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior,
Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though
not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested
on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds of Edinburgh criminals,
Burke and Hare--killing people from the streets and selling their bodies
to medical schools. Then Kiera's past--a past she thought she'd finally
made peace with--rises up to haunt her.
All of London is horrified by the evidence that burkers are, indeed, at
work in their city. The terrified populace hovers on a knife's edge,
ready to take their enmity out on any likely suspect. And when Kiera
receives a letter of blackmail, threatening to divulge details about her
late anatomist husband's involvement with the body snatchers and
wrongfully implicate her, she begins to apprehend just how precarious
her situation is. Not only for herself, but also her new husband and
investigative partner, Sebastian Gage, and their unborn child.
Meanwhile, the young scion of a noble family has been found murdered a
block from his home, and the man's family wants Kiera and Gage to
investigate. Is it a failed attempt by the London burkers, having left
the body behind, or the crime of someone much closer to home? Someone
who stalks the privileged, using the uproar over the burkers to cover
his own dark deeds?
