The Darkwood Mysteries (12): The Silence of the Veiled Lady

Emily Darkwood is already resisting Victorian society's expectations of her as a woman of the upper classes, when she receives a strange and life-changing inheritance in the wake of her missing parents. A stone of amber that draws her into mysteries, supernatural, cosmic, and criminal. Armed with this guide stone, her wits, revolver, sword-stick umbrella, and faithful servant-companion, the streetwise, scrappy, and young Jack Hobbs, she determines to challenge the mysteries and threats she encounters in her search to understand the origin and power of the stone and its connection to her parents-and their fates.
Yet dark forces conspire against her, and her drive for answers and her fight against the darkness of the world risks fought for medical studies, her friends, family-and her life. The Darkwood Mysteries are a series of short-stories, novellas, and novels that can largely be enjoyed as standalone tales of horror and adventure from any point, or together in order as part of a deeper mystery. The Silence of the Veiled Lady is a novella in the series.
Professor Meredith and his wife supported Emily Darkwood's entry into her surgical studies. Both are now tormented. Mrs Meredith is trapped by a covenant she was sworn to maintain into death and beyond. The professor is haunted by a missing box and the apparent supernatural force that has taken it. What is the secret, and what is in the box? Darkwood is determined to find out-and see justice done.