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From Edgar-nominated creator Lyndsay Faye comes the next e book in what Gillian Flynn message or calls, "an excellent new secret series." Half a year after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented official, Timothy Wilde, considers himself amply trained in his city's dark practices - until he learns of the gruesome underworld of lies and problem ruled by the "blackbirders," who snatch free Northerners of color using their company homes, masquerade them as slaves, and sell them South to toil as plantation property. The abolitionist Timothy is horrified by these stock traders in individual flesh. But in 1846, slave catching is not only legal - it's police. When the beautiful and terrified Lucy Adams staggers into Timothy's office to article a robbery and is asked that which was stolen, her reply is, "My children." Their search for her mixed-race sister and kid will plunge Timothy and his feral sibling, Valentine, into a world where law enforcement officials are complicit and politics savage, and corpses come in the most shocking of places. Timothy discovers himself trapped between ability and principles, desperate to safeguard his only sibling also to unravel the puzzle before all he cares for is lost.
