"Electrifying...a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride."  ―Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with GunInspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's...

"[A] well-paced, evocative, and adventurous historical novel..."―Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review"This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke ...

A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition—and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen ...