House of Bliss

House of Bliss: The Intersection of Obsession and True Love.

London, 1905 When ladies of the night begin showing up dead in the dark and bawdy alleys of Covent Garden, the victims are wearing House of Bliss corsets made by Sabrina Blissdon. Now the police want to know how and why Blissdon, the bohemian but successful upmarket corsetière, appears to be dressing the dead.

Sabrina does know a few working women, from a time when she found comfort and solace with a couple of the occupants of a so-called tolerated house of Londonboarding houses by day, brothels by night. But she is not eager to recall her youthful lusty pursuitsand dredge up memories of falling in love with Annabel North, a working woman who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

All Sabrina wants is to focus on her work and enjoy her current romancesubstantial respites from old heartachesbut the dead women wearing House of Bliss corsets and the ghost of love forsaken torment Sabrina's restless soul. Old questions surface and new ones challenge. Did Annabelle disappear on purpose? Is she dead or alive? Is someone intentionally trying to ruin Sabrina's reputation, or worse, accuse her of murder?

Sabrina Blissdon is soon tempted into pursuing answers that could clear her name and save lives. What she discovers she may not be ready to accept when the evidence reveals the line between obsession and true love is often invisible to the blind spot in one's heart.

Dettagli