In this mystery From the national bestselling author of Murder on
Trinity Place, midwife Sarah Brandt and former police detective Frank
Malloy investigate a murder in the secretive, high-society world of
nineteenth-century New York City...
In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah
accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side,
where Charles Oakes, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly
after suffering from a mysterious disease. But Charles's father believes
his son was poisoned, and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the
matter with the utmost discretion.
Putting off their own personal affairs, Sarah and Frank soon learn that
not everyone wants to know more about Charles's death, particularly if
he was murdered. As they unravel secrets that reach back to the Civil
War, they also discover that they are in the company of a very present
danger...