Gilded Age Newport... Millionaires and robber barons come to spend the season in their opulent mansions while their wives throw lavish balls and gossip over afternoon tea. In 1893, the toast of the town is a spirit-medium-just returned from Europe-who now summons the departed to the marble mansions and wealthy parlors of the summer colonists. Her success attracts the attention of a retired stage magician who has made his name exposing psychic charlatans. He decides to travel to Newport to effect one last dramatic unmasking.

Rory O'Brien lives in Salem, MA, with his patient, long-suffering wife, their Treeing Walker Coonhound, and a black cat. His previous novel, Gallows Hill, is also available from The Merry Blacksmith Press. Visit www.roryobrienbooks.com