{"product_id":"the-betrayal-of-cora-wexford-a-novel","title":"The Betrayal of Cora Wexford: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Fans of historical fiction will thrill to this dark tale.” —Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Dinner for Vampires, Bethany Joy Lenz, comes a romantic psychological suspense set in Victorian-era London amidst the Jack the Ripper murders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1880s London. Cora Wexford is alone at thirty-eight, with secrets that drove her to flee life in America and come to London. Now, she makes a living by painting the dead. On the evening of her birthday, she is introduced through friends to a charming stranger named Miles Vale. As Cora falls deeper into trust and surrender with Miles, she's given an opportunity to catapult her career. A suffragist and esteemed gallery owner commission Cora to create a series of portraits featuring ordinary women whose recent deaths have been caused or enabled by a system that ignores them. Then a killer in Whitechapel begins murdering women in the same gruesome way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Cora works tirelessly to honor the victims of this “Jack the Ripper,” she finds herself increasingly disoriented within her own relationship. Her unraveling leads to one question: will anyone notice a woman being dismantled over time by someone sharing her bed?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Betrayal of Cora Wexford is a haunting novel of psychological suspense that examines themes of desire, manipulation and community complicity, showing how easily someone surrounded by witnesses can disappear—and how truly terrifying love can be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67705290424622,"sku":"9781668265352","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1385\/1694\/files\/9781668265352.jpg?v=1791815021","url":"https:\/\/www.thebeeskneesemporium.ca\/products\/the-betrayal-of-cora-wexford-a-novel","provider":"The Bee's Knees Books \u0026 Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}