My Mad Scientist

In the shadows of Victorian London, Alice Lumsley's life has been a sequence of entrapment and despair. Committed to Bedlam Asylum at just ten years old for "female hysteria," she spent nine years enduring the cold stones and sterile horrors of an institution that nearly broke her spirit. But when the threat of a lobotomy looms, Alice stages a desperate, violent escape, plunging into a stormy London night with the city's blue-coated "Peelers" hot on her heels.

Her flight leads her to a misju...