Russell Bedford's Fifth Mistress

Russell Bedford is a gloomy, lonely recluse who lives without friends and “doesn’t know words of love.” He despises attachments and doesn’t take on permanent mistresses. I was the exception—until one day I ended up in a mysterious city that looks suspiciously like Victorian London.

Powerful houses, crime on the streets, and a mysterious killer stalking me… Bedford thinks I’m lucky: as long as he hasn’t unraveled all my secrets, he won’t be allowed to kill me. But we have different ideas about luck, Mr. Bedford! Since I survived and ended up here, I’m not going to sit and wait—hands folded—until I’m “solved” or killed.