Publisher's Synopsis
A maverick young woman. A man who deals in death. Dark secrets that won't stay buried.
London, 1894. Magnolia Conroy, resourceful, fiery and strong-willed, scorns the fate of the well-bred young female - submission to convention, and the constraint of marriage. Due to her flamboyant and unconventional father's preoccupation with racing and gaming, she has been free to create for herself instead an extraordinary and liberating double life.
But when a bizarre freak accident brings tragedy, her world is thrown into chaos. The unthinkable happens, and she finds herself at the mercy of the powerful, sinister and darkly charismatic man who has always been her nemesis.
Determined to resist his tyranny, she is about to learn the nightmare has only just begun. Dark forces have been set in motion, and suddenly she is trapped in a web of danger, intrigue, brutality, shocking revelations - and murder.
Her only chance of surviving is by forming an alliance she could never have imagined.....
