It's London, 1872, where 17-year-old heiress Leonora Somerville is preparing to be presented to upper upper-class society -- again. She's strikingly beautiful and going to be very rich, but Leo has a problem money cant solve. A curious speech disorder causes her to stutter but also allows her to imitate other peoples voices flawlessly. Servants and ladies alike call her Mad Miss Mimic behind her backand watch as Leo unintentionally scares off one potential husband after another. London is also a city gripped by opium fever. Leos brother-in-law Dr. Dewhurst and his new business partner Francis Thornfax are frontrunners in the race to patent an injectable formula of the drug. Friendly, forthright, and as a bonus devastatingly handsome, Thornfax seems immune to the gossip about Leos madness. But their courtship is endangered from the start. The mysterious Black Glove opium gang is setting off explosions across the city. The street urchins Dr. Dewhurst treats are dying of overdose. And then there is Tom Rampling, the working-class boy Leo cant seem to get off her mind. As the violence closes in around her Leo must find the links between the Black Gloves attacks, Toms criminal past, the doctors dangerous cure, and Thornfaxs political ambitions. But first she must find her voice
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