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Under the plain gray skirts of Miss Beatrice Lockwood's gown, a pistol waits at the ready. For Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission--and with a secret past--and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown oddly off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy ball--and then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. His name is Joshua Gage, and he claims to know Beatrice's employers. Beyond that, he is an enigma with a hypnotically calm voice and an ebony-and-steel cane. Joshua, who carries out clandestine investigations for the Crown, is equally intrigued. He has a personal interest in Miss Lockwood, a suspected thief and murderer, not to mention a fraudster who claims to have psychical powers. The quest to discover her whereabouts has pulled him away from his mournful impulses to hurl himself into the sea--and engaged his curiosity about the real Beatrice Lockwood, whose spirit, he suspects, is not as delicate as her face and figure. He does know one thing, though: This flame-haired beauty was present the night Roland Fleming died at the Academy of the Occult. Guilty or not, she is his guide to a trail of blood and blackmail, mesmerism and madness--a path that will lead both of them into the clutches of a killer who calls himself the Bone Man.

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Mary Jane Wells trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, working in theater in the UK and Europe for twelve years prior to her love affair with the US. Mary Jane's first few years of work in LA were as an actress and a story coach, creating the documentary Holy Hell with its director, Will Allen. Holy Hell was chosen as a Sundance Select documentary in 2016, nominated for Grand Jury prize and the Critics' Choice Documentary Award, picked up for a special with CNN and sold to Netflix and other platforms. As an actress she worked as a guest star on various new shows and some existing ones-e.g. HBO's The Newsroom, and regularly as a voice match for various profiled actresses. In 2014, she voice-matched Cate Blanchett for a year with Dreamworks on HTTYD2: her resulting duet with Gerard Butler was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. She subsequently went full-time into voice-over, narrating the British doc series My Childhood, which won a Scottish BAFTA, and her work across commercial, animation, and gaming won her SOVAS nominations for Best Romance Narrator and Outstanding Body of Voice Work. Mary Jane's national voice-over campaigns have included Puma, Eharmony, Sunny Finance, LinkedIn Talent Pipeline, and Jet 2. She has worked for NASA, the Obama Campaign, Microgenius, Bank of America, Dreamworks, HBO, Warner Brothers, NBC Universal, Starz, Fox, Claritas for Futurebrand, who branded the 2012 Olympics, Tech-crunch, Jaguar, the BBC, and the UN, and was the digital news anchor for The Chicago Tribune for a year. She currently plays Catriona Stripe on Monsters Inc. and plays in several large-scale video games yet to be released. Mary Jane turned more comprehensively to audiobooks in 2017 and has to date narrated over 150 audiobooks on Audible and beyond, winning eight Earphones Awards, three Audie Awards (two for historical romance), and an Audible Swoon Award as ""audience favorite."" She narrated the audiobooks known as the official inspiration for Downton Abbey, Below Stairs and Climbing the Stairs, and is known for her male and female voice acting, mainly in historical romance but also narrates in the YA, classics, mystery thriller, and fiction genres. Mary Jane wrote and performed her solo show, Heroine, in 2017 at Capital Theatres, Edinburgh. This true story about a living survivor of military sexual trauma became an unlikely hit, and its heavily anonymized protagonist, ""Danna Davis,"" was often secretly in the audience. On first outing, Heroine won the Olwen Wymark Award from the Writer's Guild with Nicky McCartney. After also winning a Made in Scotland Award for the best work nationally, Heroine was booked for a month at Assembly at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Situp Award and the Amnesty Award, won the Scottish Arts Trust Award, and sold the stage rights to five territories. Resultingly, Mary Jane was invited to debut Heroine in the US at The Kennedy Center in 2020 to standing ovations every night, after a sold-out Scottish tour to the Traverse Theatre and Perth Repertory Theatre. Congresswoman Jackie Speier spoke on Heroine's aftershow panel and went on to champion overdue but groundbreaking legal change for MST survivors twelve months later in the Senate. Mary Jane launched the audiobook, winning another Earphones Award in 2021 and an Audie Award for Best Original Work in 2022. Mary Jane is currently working with a first look deal producer for FOX 21 for its TV series, which is in active development. Mary Jane was assistant for the academic research on the breakthrough vocal technique of Dr. George with the artistic directors of The National Theatre Scotland led by Ros Steen, former Head of Voice at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, which was later published in association with the Centre for Voice in Performance, UK. Her next new solo show, The Good Girl, is a recent recipient of sponsorship in 2023. She partners with Author's Republic, Capital Theatres and The Kennedy Center from the very beginning-for what she hopes will be an irreverently hilarious new show and attending audio series for those who live with and care about dementia. It is her wildest dream to serve with storytelling.

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