First published 2018
Mary Jekyll enjoys a quiet life in London with her unusual household. Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein, and her sister Diana Hyde have formed the Athena Club after helping solve the Whitechapel Murders alongside Sherlock Holmes. Their peace shatters when a telegram arrives with urgent news. Lucinda Van Helsing has been kidnapped. The young woman faces horrific experiments at the hands of her own father, Professor Van Helsing. Mary and her friends must leave London immediately and travel deep into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Their journey takes them from Paris to Vienna to Budapest as they search for Lucinda. Along the way, they encounter new allies and confront old enemies. The secretive Alchemical Society stands behind these twisted experiments, and the Athena Club must face this powerful organization directly. Time runs short as Lucinda remains in grave danger. These daughters of literature's most notorious scientists must overcome their own dark origins to save another victim of scientific horror.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, fantasy, 19th-century, alternate-history
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, gothic-horror, mad-scientist, rescue-mission
Setting: Austria-Hungary, Budapest, London, Paris, Vienna, Whitechapel
Period: 19th-century
721 pages · Kindle Edition · S&S/Saga Press
Content warnings: body-horror, medical-trauma, violence