Description:Irene Adler is the beautiful opera singer who bested the best detective
in the world, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. She has
spent years in self-imposed exile in Europe, in an attempt to reinvent
herself and create a new life, because she cannot remember the old one.
But now circumstances have forced this diva-turned-detective to
investigate a past she doesn't remember--on her home ground.
Daredevil reporter Nelly Bly has lured Irene, her faithful chronicler
and British parson's daughter Nell Huxleigh, and Holmes himself to
America, offering information regarding Irene's parentage. New York
City in 1889 proved to be both fascinating and perilous for Irene, and
Nelly Bly's information was more harmful than helpful. Because now Irene
and her allies--and enemies--must race to follow a deadly trail of
hidden personal and political history back in time to the days of the
California gold rush, thirty years earlier.
They are pursuing
the complex and contradictory life story of one of the most notorious
women of the nineteenth century, and before the intrigue-ridden quest is
over, Irene and Nell will uncover murderous international political
conspiracies, lost treasure, and finally... the full, shocking secret of
Irene's birth.