City of Lights and Skulls

A reckless dare

An all-girls secret society

A mission to destroy Westinghouse's lights

And monsters hiding in the greatest city of the nineteenth century

Chicago, 1893

When Clara arrives at St. Joan's Academy for Girls, she tells no one about her family's connection to the school: how her great-aunt went missing from there years prior. But once Clara infiltrates the school's secret society-the Alouettes-she learns there have been others to have vanished from St. Joan's, and all clues point ...