Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and
race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the
Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the
Alchemist's Daughter.
Life's always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when one of
their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades
rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll, and her friends return home to
discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished--and so
has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes!
As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that
Alice and Sherlock's kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that
threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can
Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends--and
the Empire?
In the final volume of the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called "a
tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit
and insight" in a starred review, the women of the Athena Club will
embrace their monstrous pasts to create their own destinies.