Authors Elizabeth Black and Fletcher Walker go head-to-head as rival writers of Victorian Penny Dreadfuls.
Its upper-class against working-class, author against author where readers, reputations, and romance are all on the line..
But the more time they spend together, the more she loses her heart.
For the first time, Elizabeth experiences the thrill of a cat-and-mouse adventure reminiscent of one of her own novels as she tries to throw Fletcher off her scent.
King\'s whereabouts? Elizabeth agrees to help Fletcher, if only to insure her secret identity is never discovered.
As a fellow-author, she is well-known among the high-class writers; perhaps she could be persuaded to make some inquiries as to Mr.
King, Fletcher approaches Miss Black.
Determined to find the elusive Mr.
No one knows who King is, including Fletcher\'s fellow members of the Dread Penny Society, a fraternity of authors dedicated to secretly fighting for the rights of the less-fortunate.
King started taking all of his readers--and his profits.
Fletcher Walker began life as a street urchin, but is now the most successful author in the Penny Dreadful market, that is until Mr.
They contain all the adventure and mystery that her real life lacks.
King, Elizabeth has written about dashing heroes fighting supernatural threats and dangerous outlaws romancing helpless women.
Under the pseudonym Mr.
But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories--the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the working-class men.
Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls\' school and a well-respected author of silver-fork novels, stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society.
King in order to keep her identity a secret, while former street urchin Fletcher is determined to uncover the truth behind this up-and-coming new talent.
As an upper class schoolteacher, Elizabeth must write under the pseudonym Mr.
Authors Elizabeth Black and Fletcher Walker go head-to-head as rival writers of Victorian Penny Dreadfuls
