High fashion - high stakes.

When Esther returns home from university, she finds her mother, the great fashion designer Daphne Sarcire, engaged to a man no one has ever heard of. The mysterious and unsettling Lord Godric Collard has taken over the family's fashion house, drawn all the curtains, and his unsettling, pale wards haunt the corridors.

One of Collard's wards is assigned to Esther as an apprentice - Benjamin is cold and reserved, but a strange connection starts forming between him and Esther. When one of the models is found with her throat ripped out, Esther and Benjamin will have to team up with her bohemian siblings to uncover the secrets hiding at the heart of the House of Sarcire... and free her mother from Lord Collard's thrall.

In a world of high fashion shows, magical gowns, biting wit and bloody secrets, Esther will have to face the truth in order to save her family. But her world will not survive unchanged...

Dracula meets The Devil Wears Prada in this sharp romantic fantasy set in an Italian fashion house in 1898 London.