An Acquaintance With Darkness

A teenage orphan is caught up in President Lincoln's assassination-and another macabre plot-in this "fast-paced and dramatic" historical novel ( Publishers Weekly ). Emily's mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn't know about. But after Emily is orphaned-as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the end of the Civil War-she has nowhere else to go. Now, in addition to c...