Brenda Clough 
A Most Dangerous Woman: A Novel 

An exciting Victorian-era murder mystery, populated by characters from Wilkie Collins’s beloved The Woman in White.


Marian Halcolmbe finds and marries her true love, Theo Camlet. But when Theo’s first wife, who everyone believed to be dead, reappears, Marian and her brother in law Walter must delve into the darkest and most dangerous corners of London to save Theo from accusations of bigamy and murder, as well as the hangman’s noose.


Victorian literature’s most exciting heroine, Marian Halcombe, stars in Brenda Clough’s thrilling and romantic sequel to Wilkie Collins’
The Woman in White.


Praise for A Most Dangerous Woman:

‘Blending seamlessly with the end of Wilkie Collins’s beloved
The Woman in White, Brenda Clough’s
A Most Dangerous Woman takes one of the most fascinating female characters in Victorian literature and gives her the life she deserves.’ —Sherwood Smith, author of the Sartorias-deles series

About the author

Brenda W. Clough is a novelist, short story, and nonfiction writer. Her recent e-books are Revise the World and Speak to Our Desires. Her novels include How Like a God, The Doors of Death and Life, and Revise the World. She has been a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. She has been teaching science fiction & fantasy workshops at The Writer’s Center for over 10 years.