To solve baffling crimes in turn-of-the-century Chicago, you only need to know a single fact. Bygone sins in the White City cast the longest shadows.

• Nominated for Reader’s Choice Awards as Best First Novel and Best Historical Mystery
• For Fans of Historical Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, and The Gilded Age

GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES
A melting pot of thieves, corrupt politicians, robber barons, and impoverished immigrants, Gilded Age Chicago is rife with injustice. An eccentric heiress and a star reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lies at its core.

Volume One – The Fall of White City
Wealthy spinster Evangeline LeClair leads a paradoxical life. By day, she fends off marriage-minded suitors. By night, she teaches English to factory workers at a social settlement in the slums. Evangeline is quite satisfied with the status quo until murder disrupts her routine. One of her students, a penniless immigrant, has been stabbed to death in Chicago’s most exclusive hotel. The girl’s brother, a known anarchist, is accused of the crime.

Evangeline wheedles her admirer, Freddie Simpson, into helping her track down the real killer. Their list of possible suspects is long: a captain of industry, a denizen of the slums, a shady doctor who mixes his own drugs, and a teenage prostitute from a sporting house in the Levee District. The gleaming surface of the World’s Fair casts many shadows, and THE FALL OF WHITE CITY exposes the darkness at its core.

The shifter world was peaceful—until the Shadow Dragons returned.

Ever since the Great War, when my parents abandoned me in the Air Dragon Kingdom, I’ve been the punching bag of the royal elites. They hate me because I’m an outsider. I dare to question their rules and the cruelty of their tyrant king.

There’s also the small matter of how I’m a dragon shifter who can’t seem to shift.

But none of that matters. Deep down, I know my value.

And so does Storm—the crown prince’s younger brother. Our relationship has to be kept a secret, of course, but behind closed doors, he’s the definition of a loving, caring mate. If only I could manage to bring my dragon forth, I’m sure he’d be my fated mate.

Right until the moment we’re discovered. Storm rejects me, crushing me and destroying my pathetic excuse for a life. Banished, I have no choice but to wander out into the unclaimed territories.

But not everything is as it seems. The people beyond the Air Kingdom’s borders aren’t the lawless brutes I was told they were. As I find new allies and begin to create a new home, trouble has its own way of finding me, though. First in the form of a powerful artifact, pulsing with a dark magic that we all thought had been defeated long ago.

And then in the form of two dragon princes from two warring dragon kingdoms.

Both of whom are intent on claiming me as their mate.