The Cadaver Princess

<p><strong>THE DEAD DON'T STAY DEAD-ESPECIALLY ROYALTY.</strong></p><p>London 1831. The city teems with secrets science and shadows-and one of those shadows just opened her eyes on an anatomist's slab.</p><p>She says her name is Victoria. She insists she's a princess. But she's missing her teeth wrapped in a burial shroud and undeniably... dead. Or was.</p><p>Thrown together with a streetwise orphan named Pablo a skeptical doctor and a tavern keeper with secrets of her own this strange girl unravels a conspiracy that stretches from the slums of London to the halls of Kensington Palace. Someone is stealing bodies-not just for science but for power. And someone else is playing a dangerous game with the soul of the British Empire.</p><p>Part gothic mystery part alternate history <em>The Cadaver Princess</em> is a gripping witty and darkly magical tale of resurrection rebellion and identity. If Mary Shelley and Terry Pratchett had collaborated it might have looked something like this.</p><p><strong>She's not the girl they buried.</strong><br><strong>She's not the girl they crowned.</strong><br><strong>She's something else entirely.</strong></p>