After the loss of her right leg from the knee down,
Emily Forbes has focused on becoming a renowned
opera singer. When at last it seems her dream is within
reach, she ignores the concern of her detective brother
and heads off to New York City, where she lands the lead
role in a performance. While promoting the production,
she hears a familiar name: DeKlerk. Soon she's digging
through the only case her brother never closed.
Samuel DeKlerk is a respected physician. After serving
in the Civil War and witnessing the devastating effects of
privation and war on fellow soldiers' physical and mental
well-being, he shifts his clinical interests to diseases of the
mind. He's now an alienist a doctor to the mad with
little time for frivolity. He agrees to invest in the opera, in
the memory of his sister, Sarah, who was murdered by a
yet nameless killer. When he catches Emily Forbes prying
into the past, his life is upended again.
As they work to solve a case gone cold, determined to
bring Sarah's
