Within this Gaslight Mystery through the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City. Amid Sarah and Frank’s wedding ceremony preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on the condolence call to the Top West Aspect, where Charles Fairfax, the boy of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a incomprehensible disease. It is a tragic and all as well common story-or so it seems. Charles’s father asks to consult with Sarah privately. He is convinced his boy was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to check out the matter with the utmost discretion. Placing their own personal affairs on keep, Sarah and Frank shortly learn that not everyone really wants to know more about Charles’s loss of life, especially if he was murdered. As they unravel secrets that reach back again to the War Between the States, in addition they discover that they are together with an extremely present danger.