The Second Ladies Of Lantern Street Novel From Amanda Quick Explores The Crimes, Passions And Paranormal Secrets Of Victorian London. Under The Plain Gray Skirts Of Miss Beatrice Lockwood'S Gown, a Pistol Waits At The Ready. For Beatrice Is a Paid Companion On a Secret Mission--And With a Secret Past--And She Must Be Prepared To Fight For Her Life At Any Moment. Yet She Is Thrown Oddly Off Guard By The Fierce-Looking Man Who Joins Her In Foiling a Crime Outside a Fancy Ball--And Then Disappears Into The Shadows, Leaving Only His Card. His Name Is Joshua Gage, And He Claims To Know Beatrice'S Employers. Beyond That, He Is An Enigma With a Hypnotically Calm Voice And An Ebony-And-Steel Cane. . . . Joshua, Who Carries Out Clandestine Investigations For The Crown, Is Equally Intrigued. He Has a Personal Interest In Miss Lockwood, a Suspected Thief And Murderer, Not To Mention a Fraudster Who Claims To Have Psychical Powers. The Quest To Discover Her Whereabouts Has Pulled Him Away From His Mournful Impulses To Hurl Himself Into The Sea--And Engaged His Curiosity About The Real Beatrice Lockwood, Whose Spirit, He Suspects, Is Not As Delicate As Her Face And Figure. He Does Know One Thing, Though: This Flame-Haired Beauty Was Present The Night Roland Fleming Died At The Academy Of The Occult. Guilty Or Not, She Is His Guide To a Trail Of Blood And Blackmail, Mesmerism And Madness--A Path That Will Lead Both Of Them Into The Clutches Of a Killer Who Calls Himself The Bone Man. . . .