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London, 1887. As metropolis prepares to commemorate Queen Victoria's fantastic jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to job application her world moves in pursuit of scientific inquiry - and the occasional loving dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she actually is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with similar aplomb, and with her previous connection to England now gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of an eternity. But destiny has other plans, as Veronica discovers when she thwarts her own abduction with the aid of an enigmatic German baron with ties to her mystical former. Promising to show in time what he is aware of of the story against her, the baron offers her non permanent sanctuary in the care and attention of his friend Stoker - a reclusive natural historian as intriguing as he's bad-tempered. But before the baron can deliver on his tantalizing vow to show the secrets he has concealed for decades, he's found murdered. Out of the blue Veronica and Stoker are compelled to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous real truth.
