The Scarlet Trail
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Last published Sat, Dec 15, 2012
England, 1862.
A young woman is brutally slain in a Kent woodland. The next evening, twenty miles away, the same thing happens, and again the night after that. Each murder seems to grow closer to London, yet the authorities seem reluctant to investigate...
Lady Florence Foale, a young Victorian heiress, and best friend to one of the victims, knows the killings are connected. A headstrong young woman, who struggles against the role imposed on her in Victorian Britain, she will stop at nothing to ascertain the truth. Whatever the cost.
However, she is ill prepared for the dark supernatural forces which are at play. If she survives her journey into the depths of Victorian London's seedy underbelly, she will never be the same again.
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