From New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard comes a new tale of 1876 necromancy, perfect for fans of Emily Wilde or Veronica Speedwell... but with a few walking corspes thrown in.
It's the start of the Gilded Age in Philadelphia, and Eleanor Fitt-broke, unmarried, and fluent in Shakespeare-has spent the last six years holding her family together. When her brilliant (but woefully hapless) brother fails to step off a train from New York again, Eleanor is prepared to be furious.
What she is not prepared for is her brother having been kidnapped by a necromancer.
As the Bard put it, O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Armed with a parasol and no money, Eleanor tracks down a ragtag team known as the Spirit-Hunters, who consist of an elegant theurgist, a woman with a baseball bat, and a (much too charming) engineer. In their company, Eleanor soon finds herself playing every role forbidden to a young lady of high society: investigator, liar, medium, thief. Yet the closer she and the Spirit-Hunters get to the truth of the necromancer, the more Eleanor realizes that, while the walking dead might be brutal and frightening to fight against...
