The Last Necromancer

Victorian London. For five years Charlotte Holloway, called Charlie, has passed as a boy in the slums. Another theft gets her arrested, and the only way out is to raise a spirit from a dead man, something she has not done since her father banished her for it.

The act draws attention. People hunt Charlie across the city, and one man catches her: Lincoln Fitzroy, the mysterious head of a secret organization. He is tracking a madman who needs a necromancer to control his newly "made" creatures.

Lincoln knows of only one necromancer in the world, Charlotte, yet there now seem to be two. He holds the willful boy in the hope of being led to her, and does not yet know that the boy and the young woman are the same person.

The book blends fantasy and mystery with a thread of romance. Once Lincoln learns the truth, Charlie must decide whether to work for the man who held her against her will, inside an organization she distrusts and that may be as dangerous as the madman.