1906. Letty Ingram has travelled all the way to Singapore from her windswept Scottish home because she desperately needs help. The terrifying 'curse' that has plagued her since childhood now threatens to consume her.
Only one person can free her from the demons that haunt her: the formidable Miss Cassidy. To find the answers, she must travel through worlds and time, from Victorian London to Paris's scandalous demimonde, into a realm of ancient spells, dark magic and the deadliest of evil spirits.
But in trying to save Letty, will Miss Cassidy have to bargain with her own life?
Meihan Boey is the author of The Formidable Miss Cassidy (co-winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and winner of the 2022 Singapore Book Award for Best Literary Work), and science fiction novella The Messiah Virus. Her work has appeared in Fish Eats Lion Redux, Fright 1, the inaugural issue of Sploosh and the sixth volume of Best New Singaporean Short Stories.
She was a writer-in-residence in June 2023 at the National Writing Centre in Norwich, UK, where she worked on the third book in this series. She is also the vice president of the Association of Comic Artists of Singapore and has scripted several comics, including Supacross and The Once and Marvellous DKD. She is a dedicated comic book and manga fan, an enthusiastic gamer, a persistent triathlete, and not yet a Super Saiyan, though she keeps trying.
