Book two in this Edwardian steampunk adventure series, featuring two secret agents from the 'Ministry of Peculiar Occurences'. there's something rotten in the city of London. Women are disappearing - young and old, rich and poor, from all walks of society. the only thing they have in common is their belief that women also deserve the vote. It's up to the Ministry of Peculiar Occurences to find out why these women are vanishing, but agents Books and Braun have their own challenges. there's a turncoat with nefarious plans within the Ministry itself, and the reappearance of an old flame means their growing friendship is threatened. to say nothing of the queen of the underworld, tassassins-attacking-on-ornithopters, and a conspiracy that reaches to the heights of London Society.