A.K. Vande Vorde is a lifelong book enthusiast who spent her childhood days writing stories and drawing pictures for them. At the age of thirteen, she took on the challenge of writing her first novel. She received her bachelor’s degree in creative writing at Loras College and her master’s degree in English Studies at Illinois State University. Currently, she is an editor by day and writer by night, and lives with her husband, golden retriever, and multiple cats on a lovely acreage in Iowa. She is looking forward to welcoming their new son.
What would you do for artistic brilliance? If twenty-three-year-old Camilla Farrow’s life were a theatrical play, she would be in the audience: invisible and detached. But it all changes late one summer night when she witnesses two young men dressed in Victorian costumes crawling down a manhole in an empty Boston alleyway.
Camilla is pulled into a secret society of artists and actors who live in an underground limestone fortress—an eighth Natural Wonder of the World that no one knows about but them.
But beneath the midnight tea parties, the theatrical performances, and the bardic battles lies something more sinister. The Society’s leader, Atticus, offers to mentor her so that she may be remembered among the greats—at the cost of her morality, sanity, and possibly even human lives—including her own.
And Camilla is so entranced that she may just accept.