A period novel about a female detective who goes undercover (occasionally as a man), to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside --

In the second book of the Winship series, spring has come unnaturally early to the shores of Port Townsend. Only two weeks before her daughter's sixteenth birthday, Charlotte Winship is visited by the ghosts of children who died of a strange fever nearly one hundred years before. These spirits warn her of a coming plague that demands she take action. She must piece together woeful events from the past to keep both her family, and the town, from grave...