In this Counterfeit Lady Novel, now in paperback, 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. Anna's mother has been
attending séances in hopes of connecting with her son, David, who died
of influenza. Anna just learned that Mrs. Vanderslice is paying the
medium ever-increasing sums of money in her eagerness to make contact.
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.
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. 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?