London, April 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on the eve of her debut presentation to the Queen. Her life should be about gowns and dancing, and securing a suitable marriage. Instead, when one of her family's housemaids goes missing, Lady Helen is drawn to the shadows of Regency London.
There, she finds William, the Earl of Carlston. He has noticed the disappearance, too, and is one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of powerful demons that has infiltrated every level of society. But Lady Helen’s curiosity is the last thing Carlston wants—especially when he sees the searching intelligence behind her fluttering fan. Should Helen trust a man whose reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will her headstrong sense of justice lead them both into a death trap?
In The Dark Days Club, internationally bestselling author Alison Goodman introduces readers to a heroine who is just as remarkable as Eona—and yet again reinvents an established literary genre, making it her own.
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“Narrator Fiona Hardingham expertly portrays the characters in this novel with doses of snobbery, passion, and wit…Hardingham consistently engages the listener, keeping the action and dialogue moving at an excellent pace. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
“The Dark Days Club captivates with a mix of history and fantasy. [An] immersive,action-packed narrative.”
— USA Today“This fantastic introduction leaves us hungry for more.”
— Entertainment Weekly“A masterful, beguiling story from start to finish.”
— New York Daily News“Fast-paced, rich in description, with fascinating characters and excitement.”
— School Library Journal“Lady Helen is a well-drawn heroine, and her struggle to free herself from the stilted life of an early-nineteenth century noblewoman and embrace her wilder, darker self is powerfully delineated.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)Alison Goodman is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning Eon/Eona duology, as well as the YA science fiction thriller Singing the Dogstar Blues, and an adult novel, A New Kind of Death. She was a DJ O’Hearn Memorial Fellow at Melbourne University, holds a Master of Arts degree, and teaches creative writing at the postgraduate level. She is online at www.alisongoodman.com.au and on Twitter @AlisonGoodman, and keeps a constantly growing Regency treasure trove at www.pinterest.com/alisongoodman.
Fiona Hardingham is a British-born actress, singer, voice-over artist, and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. On stage, she appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in her comedic one-woman show The Dark Show. She has also starred in the dark-comedy short film The Ballerino. She earned a BA honors degree in performing arts from Middlesex University, London, and also studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.