Book #1

London, November 1893 A woman is found sawn in half in a        narrow alley-her body laid inside a magician's coffin, hands folded     in prayer, a white rose in her palms. Between her fingers: a playing     card. The Jack of Hearts. Inked with a chilling message. The first     of six. Inspector Tobias Flint of Scotland Yard has spent fifteen     years hunting killers-but nothing like this. The murder is no random act of violence. It is precise. Theatrical. A macabre recreation of an illusion devised by the long-dead stage magician, the Magnificent Maguire. And the killer-already christened by the press as The Coffin Conjurer-has promised this is only the opening act. But Maguire's legacy was never buried. For fifteen years, Jaqueline "Jack" Maguire has lived as a ghost. Presumed dead after the fire that killed her father, she has built a new life in the shadows-using the very skills he taught her: sleight of hand, misdirection, and the art of disguise. Now, as the secret force behind one of London's most formidable private investigation agencies, she protects the women society overlooks and keeps her past locked firmly away. After all, magic took everything she loved. She has no intention of letting it take anything more. But when the Coffin Conjurer begins using her father's illusions as a blueprint for murder and sends her a Jack of Hearts-the nickname her father gave her-  Jack knows her past has finally caught up with her. After Inspector Flint catches her searching his office for clues to the killer's identity the morning after the first murder, he refuses to let her to pull one over on him disappear again.