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A young woman searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned. Twenty-year-old Constance Horton has run away from her life in Victorian London, disguising herself as a boy to board the Makepeace, an expedition vessel bound for the icy and unexplored Northwest Passage of the Arctic. She struggles to keep her real identity a secret on the ship, a feat that only grows more difficult when facing off with the constant dangers of the icy North. Even more dangerous than the cold, the storms, and the hunger, are some of the men aboard--including the ship's scientist Edison Stowe. He seems to be watching Constance, and she knows that his attention could be fatal. In London two years later, Maude Horton is searching for the truth. After being told by the British Admiralty that her sister's death onboard the Makepeace was nothing more than a tragic accident, she receives a diary revealing that Edison Stowe had more of a hand in Constance's death than the returning crew had acknowledged. To get the answers she needs, Maude decides to shadow Edison. She joins him on a new venture that he started in order to capitalize on the murder mania that has all of London in a frenzy, a travel company that takes guests around the country via train to witness public hangings. She will extract the truth from him in any way possible. As tensions and dangers mount, it ultimately falls to Maude to enact the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge is a transporting, atmospheric novel about the lengths we will go to for justice--and for love.

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"""Lizzie Pook is a master of suspense. The story of one sister's love and determination to avenge her sister's death is an unforgettable, atmospheric thrill ride."" -- ""Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author"""

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Lizzie Pook is the author of two works of historical fiction, Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter and Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge. She is a London-based travel writer and journalist whose work has taken her to some of the farthest-flung parts of the planet, from the Himalayas in search of elusive snow leopards to the vast, uninhabited east coast of Greenland. She has written for the London papers The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, the Evening Standard, and Stylist. Visit her at LizziePook.com. Genevieve Gaunt is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Knightfall, The Royals, and Dusty and Me.

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