"Gleason has vamped up the familiar world of Holmes and Watson...to paranormally exhilarating effect." —The New York Times

The girls are back! Evaline Stoker (sister of Bram) and Mina Holmes (niece of Sherlock) return in the fourth volume of the steampunk adventure series set in an alternate Victorian London. Ever since the debacle of the Chess Queen Enigma, Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker have laid low, trying to settle back into their quiet lives as young ladies of London. But the Holmesian deductive abilities won't remain dormant for long, and when Mina receives a strange package from a winged, midnight visitor, she is catapulted into a new, mysterious adventure: the search for The Carnelian Crow.

Polly Pepper, once the queen of musical comedy TV, now finds herself playing a less glamorous role in the real-life drama of “Where Did My Career Go?” In a last-ditch effort to reclaim the spotlight (and refill her dwindling bank account), Polly takes a gig as a judge on the latest reality TV circus, “I’d Do Anything to Be Famous.” It’s the kind of show where dignity goes to die, and the contestants are so desperate for fame they’d marry Quasimodo’s less attractive sibling if it meant going viral on TikTok.

A stranger has washed up on shore, half dead, with no memory of who he is or why he has been accused of treason. His only hope of avoiding death is a shadowy memory hovering just beyond his grasp...and the beautiful heiress who becomes his willing captive in order to find the key to his past and unlock their destinies.