Kate Ardleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not—outspoken, free-thinking, American...and a writer of the frowned upon penny dreadfuls.

Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig—and Kate has the chance to not only research her latest story but to begin her first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan.

Susan Wittig Albert and Bill Albert, writing as Robin Paige.