After rescuing their friend's goddaughter from her violent husband, Lady Augusta Colebrook and her twin sister Julia return to London, where they set out to prove the innocence of an old acquaintance, who was falsely accused of murder, and decide to secretly help others in need.

A ... look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Genevi�ve Hal�vy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adh�aume de Chevign�; and �lisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle--these were the three superstars of fin-de-si�cle Parisian high society who,...

"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...