Ripper

Ripper

Amy Carol Reeves

Young Adult / Historical Fiction / Women & Gender Studies

"I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me . . ."It's 1888, and after her mother's sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there.But within days, patients begin turning up murdered at the hands of Jack the Ripper. As more women are murdered, Abbie realizes that she and the Ripper share a strange connection: she has visions showing the Ripper luring his future victims to their deaths—moments before he turns his knife upon them. Her desperation to stop the massacres leads Abbie on a perilous hunt for the killer. And her search leads to a mysterious brotherhood whose link to the Ripper threatens not just London but all of mankind.Praise:"Well written . . . Reeves cleverly uses one of the most heinous figures from history to tell a gothic tale with a...
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Renegade

Renegade

Amy Carol Reeves

Young Adult / Historical Fiction / Women & Gender Studies

Brimming with romance and danger, the suspenseful Ripper series continuesThe Conclave—a secret group with twisted ideals and freakish practices—has been wiped out, thanks to Arabella Sharp. Now there's a new malevolence afoot. Fishermen are getting killed, their partially devoured bodies washing up on the shores of Scotland. Is the Ripper responsible? Or have the Conclave's sinister experiments left behind something more monstrous? Abbie fears the worst when her beloved Dr. William Siddal vanishes. To save the man she loves, Abbie must comply with the Ripper's dreadful orders—and put her own life in grave danger.
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