Publisher's Synopsis
Winter, 1893, and Gideon Bliss seeks shelter from the snow in a Soho church. There he finds Angie Tatton, his one-time love, at death's door, murmuring about brightness, black air and the mysterious Spiriters. In the morning she is gone. Above Mayfair, a seamstress climbs onto a ledge, a strange message stitched into her skin. Her employer, Lord Strythe, vanishes into the night, watched by Octavia Hillingdon, a society columnist who longs to uncover a story of real importance. She and Gideon are drawn into the same mystery, which will lead them to what lies hidden at the house on Vesper Sands...
