1874 By ancient law, any suspicious death within twelve miles of Her Majesty comes under the purview of the Coroner to the Queen's Household—a post held by the enigmatic Sir Walter Summerfield. But when a body is pulled from the Thames at Windsor, Sir Walter, most wisely, sends A. E. Summerfield to investigate in his stead. With the senior surgeon ill, it falls to Mr. James Kent, assistant surgeon at St. Luke’s College Hospital, to perform the post-mortem examination—a routine matter… until Mr. Kent finds himself working with a lady—and over a half-naked female corpse, at that! Shock turns to concern. The dead girl on his slab deserves justice. And in no time, Mr. Kent finds himself assisting the indomitable Miss A. E. Summerfield to discover who the girl is, why no one is desperately searching for her, and how she came to be floating in the Thames.
Author
Anna D. Allen is an award-winning writer noted for her eclectic style in the genres of speculative fiction and Regency Romance. Anna is essentially half-Finnish and half-Southern, which means she has no sense of humor and will shoot you for wearing white shoes after Labor Day… unless you are attending a wedding and happen to be the bride. She lives deep in the woods and spends most winters snowed in and trying to remember what warm is... something she vaguely recalls experiencing in the 20th Century. She holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts in Language and Literature. In 2001, she was a recipient of the Writers of the Future award for her short story, "Ten Gallons a Whore," currently available in her collection Lake People. She is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. It is generally acknowledged that she spends way too much time with the dead and her mind got lost somewhere in the 19th Century. Case in point, her website: http://beket1.wix.com/annadallen Rumor has it she has run off with the Doctor—picking up Matthew Brady along the way—and was last seen in 1858 in a hoop skirt and running shoes, but she doesn’t believe it.
