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 coping with the loss of her mother, the fourteen-y...