The Lion's Courtship

<p><em>The illustrated prequel to the award-winning Kronberg & Holmes series.</em></p><p><strong>She saves lives. He takes them. In Victorian London's worst slum they're about to collide.</strong></p><p>Anna Kronberg isn't your typical Victorian lady. She's a doctor disguised as a man by day a nurse to prostitutes and criminals by night. When a sadistic gentleman starts carving up working girls Anna teams up with Garret O'Hare an Irish thief whose criminal connections are matched only by his dangerous charm.</p><p>Their uneasy partnership triggers something deadlier than either expected. The girl they're trying to save vanishes. Bodies start appearing in basements. And the killer has a new obsession: Anna herself.</p><p>Some secrets are worth dying for. Others kill you first.</p><p><strong>Dark Victorian gothic meets edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller. For readers of Lyndsay Faye's </strong><em><strong>The Gods of Gotham</strong></em><strong> and Caleb Carr's </strong><em><strong>The Alienist</strong></em><strong> who seek darker alternatives to Sherlock Holmes and want their heroines unapologetically dangerous.</strong></p>