Autorentext

Bethany Joy Lenz is the author of the acclaimed memoir Dinner for Vampires, which spent multiple weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was named one of Time’s Best of the Year, and was featured on Call Her Daddy. Lenz starred in the hit TV series One Tree Hill and other acting credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Dexter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Hope Valley: 1874. She is also a recording artist and composer, and fine artist. You can follow her @MsBethanyJoyLenz.

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“Fans of historical fiction will thrill to this dark tale.” —Publishers Weekly

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dinner for Vampires, Bethany Joy Lenz, comes a romantic psychological suspense set in Victorian-era London amidst the Jack the Ripper murders.

1880s London. Cora Wexford is alone at thirty-eight, with secrets that drove her to flee life in America and come to London. Now, she makes a living by painting the dead. On the evening of her birthday, she is introduced through friends to a charming stranger named Miles Vale. As Cora falls deeper into trust and surrender with Miles, she's given an opportunity to catapult her career. A suffragist and esteemed gallery owner commission Cora to create a series of portraits featuring ordinary women whose recent deaths have been caused or enabled by a system that ignores them. Then a killer in Whitechapel begins murdering women in the same gruesome way.

As Cora works tirelessly to honor the victims of this “Jack the Ripper,” she finds herself increasingly disoriented within her own relationship. Her unraveling leads to one question: will anyone notice a woman being dismantled over time by someone sharing her bed?

The Betrayal of Cora Wexford is a haunting novel of psychological suspense that examines themes of desire, manipulation and community complicity, showing how easily someone surrounded by witnesses can disappear—and how truly terrifying love can be.