In Victorian London, a penny could buy you murder, mayhem, and a hero who played by nobody's rules. Penny dreadful stories have captivated the working classes for over fifty years, and Lavinia Howard has always believed she was born to write them. When her father's death leaves her adrift, a family connection opens a door to Jasper Courtenay of Courtenay Publishing and Lavinia walks through it without hesitation.
Writing under the pen name G. R. Howard, she creates a character unlike any the genre has seen, brash, irreverent, contemptuous of authority, a street-level detective who solves London's ugliest murders and answers to no one. The working classes are obsessed. Her stories become the most widely read penny dreadfuls ever printed.
Then her fiction starts coming true. Two deaths, both eerily, impossibly similar to murders Lavinia wrote weeks before. Detective Chief Inspector Harrison Bryce is assigned to investigate and quickly realizes that Lavinia's meteoric success has earned her something far more dangerous than fans. It's earned her enemies.
Everyone in her circle has motive. Bryce is running out of time to untangle them. The evidence is pointing to something deeply unsettling. The killer isn't just inspired by Lavinia's stories. They're writing the ending.

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