Yet Beatrice needs more than rumors to uncover the truth. Rumors abound that the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite, said to give their possessor the most unnatural powers, have surfaced in London. Indeed, she knows enough about gothic terrors to have carved out a highly successful career penning "horrid novels." But now the talented authoress finds herself in the midst of an ominous adventure that rivals anything she's ever written.Her beloved Uncle Reggie is dead, Beatrice suspects that he was murdered - all because of his keen interest in a fabled treasure that may not even exist. And if her abilities can be relied upon in the midst of great danger, they just might be the key to his investigation.Beatrice Poole may be a vicar's daughter, but that doesn't mean she's a stranger to the darker passions. Virginia’s powers are real-and so is the power she exerts over him simply with her presence. The high-society types of the exclusive Arcane Society would consider Virginia an illusionist, a charlatan, even a criminal. Owen Sweetwater inherited his family’s talent for hunting the psychical monsters who prey on London’s women and children, and his investigation into the deaths of two glass-readers has led him here. With no apparent way in or out, she’s rescued by a man she’s met only once before, but won’t soon forget. Dark energy, emanating from the mirrors lining the room, overpowers her senses. Virginia Dean wakes at midnight beside a dead body, with a bloody knife in her hand and no memory of the evening’s events.
A Victorian glass-reader and a psychic investigator play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a killer in the second installment of the New York Times bestselling Looking Glass Trilogy.
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