A Darkness Strange and Lovely is the second book in Susan Dennard's Something Strange and Deadly trilogy, moving the story from Philadelphia to nineteenth-century Paris.
With her brother dead and her mother insane, Eleanor Fitt is alone. Even the Spirit-Hunters, Joseph, Jie, and the handsome Daniel, have fled to Paris. So when Eleanor hears the vicious barking of hounds and sees haunting yellow eyes, she fears that the Dead, and the necromancer Marcus, are after her. To escape, she boards a steamer bound for France.
On the crossing she meets Oliver, a young man who claims to have known her brother. Oliver harbours a dangerous secret involving necromancy and black magic that entices Eleanor beyond words, and if she can resist him she will be fine. But when she arrives in Paris she finds the Dead have taken over and a new evil is lurking, and she is forced to make a deadly decision that goes against everything the Spirit-Hunters stand for. In Paris there is a price for this darkness strange and lovely, and Eleanor may pay it with her life.