Old Broadbrim Balking a Deep-Laid Plot

A fortune hidden in a scar. A girl who doesn't know her own name. And only one man clever enough to stop them all.

Josiah Broadbrim has seen every shade of villainy this city can produce—but nothing quite like this.

When a beautiful young woman vanishes from the streets of New York, the trail leads Broadbrim into a conspiracy years in the making. A scheming general. A desperate gamester with pockets suddenly full of gold. A society girl whose face is a mirror image of the missing Ruth Bevan's. And a wound—deliberately cut, precisely shaped—designed to pass one woman off as another and steal a fortune worth a million dollars.

Broadbrim moves through the city's ballrooms and back-alley dens with equal ease, piecing together a plot that spans decades, bloodlines, and buried secrets. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous the game becomes—because the people behind this scheme have already proven they will do anything to keep their prize.

Ruth Bevan is out there, drugged and hidden, her very identity being carved away and handed to someone else. And somewhere in a locked drawer full of old letters, the real answer waits.

Broadbrim is brilliant. He is patient. He is relentless.

But can he unravel twenty years of deception before an innocent girl's face—and her future—are stolen forever?