by Julie Berry
First published 2025
Autumn 1888. Jack the Ripper escapes London police and sails to New York City, hungry for fresh victims in Manhattan's shadowed streets. But an ancient force awakens to stop him. Medusa rises with serpent hair and deadly gaze, tracking the killer through the Bowery's maze of tenements and saloons. Salvation Army volunteers Tabitha and Pearl stumble into this mythic hunt when they discover a girl they once helped has been trapped in a local brothel. Tabitha brings city wit and appetite for danger while Pearl carries farm-bred resolve and grim focus. Their fragile alliance fractures under pressure as they join an ambitious girl reporter and charming Irish bartender to free the captive woman. The rescue mission spirals beyond their control when their paths cross with both the legendary Gorgon and history's most notorious murderer. In Berry's reimagining, true crime collides with ancient myth as mortal determination meets supernatural vengeance in the gas-lit streets of old New York.
Genres: adventure, action, 19th-century, alternate-history
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, supernatural-elements
Setting: Bowery, London, Manhattan, New York City
Period: 1888, Autumn
437 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Content warnings: graphic-violence, murder