A Washington Post Most Anticipated Book of January 2024
Twenty-year-old Constance Horton has run away from her life in Victorian London, disguising herself as a boy to board an expedition vessel bound for the icy Northwest Passage of the Arctic. Even more dangerous than the cold, the storms, and the hunger, are some of the men aboard - including the ship's scientist Edison Stowe. In London two years later, after being told that her sister's death was a tragic accident, Maude Horton receives a diary revealing that Edison Stowe had more of a hand in Constance's death than the crew acknowledged. As tensions and dangers mount, it falls to Maude to get justice for her sister.