In 1880s London, a portrait painter of the dead enters a disorienting romance while obsessing over gruesome murders of invisible women amid themes of manipulation and complicity.
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In 1880s London, a portrait painter of the dead enters a disorienting romance while obsessing over gruesome murders of invisible women amid themes of manipulation and complicity.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dinner for Vampires, Bethany Joy Lenz, comes a romantic psychological suspense set in Victorian-era London when Jack the Ripper's victims were still invisible women. 1880s London. Cora Wexford is single and childless at thirty-eight, with secrets that drove her to flee life in America and come to London. Now, she makes a living by painting the dead. On the evening of her birthday, she is introduced through friends to a charming and successful strange...
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Central romantic relationship involves trust, surrender, desire, and implied sexual intimacy that grows disorienting.
Multiple women murdered in the same gruesome manner echoing Jack the Ripper killings.
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Suffragist themes and critique of systemic neglect of women's deaths.
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Relationship manipulation, psychological dismantling, and murders of vulnerable women.
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