The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

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Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemists Daughter.

Lifes always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll, and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanishedand so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes!

As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlocks kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friendsand the Empire

In the final volume of the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called a tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight in a starred review, the women of the Athena Club will embrace their monstrous pasts to create their own destinies.

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Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy Awardwinning author of many publications, including the short story collectionIn the Forest of Forgetting;Interfictions, a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman;Voices from Fairyland, a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems;The Thorn and the Blossom, a novella in a two-sided accordion format; and the poetry collectionSongs for Ophelia; and the novels,The Strange Case of the Alchemists Daughter,European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, and TheSinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl.She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and her work has been translated into eleven languages.She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Visit her at TheodoraGoss.com.