Hester searchfilter_Gothic As this book reminds readers

As this book reminds readers

Nina's career as a freelance journalist isn't going in the direction she wants

passionate

but when words comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped

grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction" (The Washington Post)

Hester searchfilter_Gothic As this book reminds readersIsobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medicleaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to