Kendra Donovan's adventures in nineteenth-century England continue
when she is called upon to investigate the murder of a spymaster.
February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of
London ends inside an abandoned church--and a horrific discovery. Bow
Street Runner Sam Kelly is called to investigate the grisly murder of
Sir Giles Holbrooke, who was left naked and garroted, with his tongue
cut out. Yet as perplexing as that crime is, it becomes even stranger
when symbols that resemble crosses mysteriously begin to appear across
the dead man's flesh during autopsy. Is it a message from the killer?
Sam turns to the one person in the kingdom who he believes can answer
that question and solve the bizarre murder--the Duke of Aldridge's odd
but brilliant ward, Kendra Donovan.
While Kendra has been trying to adapt to her new life in the early
nineteenth century, she is eager to use her skills as a twenty-first
century FBI agent again. And she will need all her investigative
prowess, because Sir Giles was not an average citizen. He was one of
England's most clever spymasters, whose life had been filled with
intrigue and subterfuge.
Kendra's return to the gritty streets and glittering ballrooms of London
takes her down increasingly dangerous paths. When another body is
discovered, murdered in the same apparently ritualistic manner as Sir
Giles, the American begins to realize that they are dealing with a
killer with an agenda, whose mind has been twisted by rage and
bitterness so that the price of a perceived betrayal is death.
