'Grisly, addictive fun . . . I devoured it in 24 hours' â Emilia Hart, author of Weyward
In deepest winter, beware the coldest hearts . . .
London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared.
Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. âA tragic accidentâ, the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isnât right.
When she finds Constanceâs journal, it becomes clear that the truth is being buried by sinister forces. To find answers â and deliver justice for her sister â Maude must step into Londonâs dark underbelly, and into the path of dangerous, powerful men. The kind of men who seek their fortune in the cityâs horrors, from the hangings at Newgate to the ghoulish waxworks of Madame Tussaudâs.
It is a perilous task. But Maude has dangerous skills of her own . . .
'Brilliant! Stuffed with adventure' - Stuart Turton, author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
'A gripping adventure story' - Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters
'Victorian gothic at its very very best' - Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora
