In this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling
author Victoria Thompson, newlywed Elizabeth Miles must use her unlawful
skills to expose a dangerous charlatan.
Elizabeth Miles Bates has returned from her honeymoon with Gideon and is
taking great pride in having completely forsaken her disreputable past.
Then her friend Anna Vanderslice begs her to use her talents to save her
widowed mother from an unscrupulous medium. Since the war and the flu
epidemic left so many families in mourning, séances have come back into
vogue as desperate families long to communicate with their loved ones.
Anna's mother has been attending séances in hopes of connecting with her
son, David, who died of influenza. Anna had thought it a heartbreaking
but harmless activity, but she's just learned that Mrs. Vanderslice is
paying the medium ever-increasing sums of money in her eagerness to make
contact. Since David's death has already caused Anna and her mother
financial hardship, Mrs. Vanderslice's obsession is in danger of ruining
them.
Madame Ophelia is working with a group of con artists to fleece as many
grieving New Yorkers as possible before moving on to another city.
Several of Mrs. Vanderslice's friends, as well as some of Gideon's
clients, have already been victims. Elizabeth knows that simply exposing
the medium as a fraud will not be enough to recoup the stolen money; the
only way is to con the medium and her cohorts. But will Elizabeth's
family help her when it means betraying other con artists? Elizabeth
recruits Gideon, her aunt Cybil, and her partner, Zelda, to lend a hand.
Can Elizabeth and her gang of amateurs fool the professionals? Or will
speaking to the dead lead to deadly consequences?
