Lucy Campion #4
Minotaur Books
April 2016
On Sale: April 12, 2016
Featuring: Mary Campion
336 pages ISBN: 125005737X EAN: 9781250057372 Kindle: B015MP6JJI Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lucy Campion, a ladiesβ maid turned printerβs apprentice in 17th-century London, is crossing Holborn Bridge over the murky waters of the River Fleet one morning when, out of the mist, she sees a specter moving toward her. Frightened at first, Lucy soon realizes the otherworldly figure is in fact a young woman, clearly distraught and clad only in a blood-spattered white nightdress. Barely able to speak, the woman has no memory of who she is or whatβs happened to her. The townspeople believe sheβs possessed. But Lucy is concerned for the womanβs well-being and takes her to see a physician. When, shockingly, the woman is identified as the daughter of a nobleman, Lucy is asked to temporarily give up her bookselling duties to discreetly serve as the womanβs companion while she remains under the physicianβs care.
As the woman slowly recovers, she beginsβwith Lucyβs helpβto reconstruct the terrible events that led her to Holborn Bridge that morning. But when it becomes clear the womanβs safety might still be at risk, Lucy becomes unwillingly privy to a plot with far-reaching social implications, and sheβll have to decide just how far sheβs willing to go to protect the young woman in her care.
Susanna Calkins has drawn a richly detailed portrait of a time in history and a young woman struggling against the bounds of her society in her next absorbing Lucy Campion mystery.
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