Motivated by literature’s most haunting like triangle, award-winning author Lynn Cullen provides a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession within this brand-new masterpiece of historical fiction to which Sara Gruen says, “Mrs. Poe had my heart race…Don’t miss it!”

1845: NEW YORK is a sprawling warren of gaslit streets and crowded avenues, bustling with new immigrants and old money, optimism and opportunity, poverty about Mrs. Poe and crime. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is definitely all of the rage-the success which a attempting poet like Frances Osgood can only dream. As a mom trying to support two small children after her husband’s cruel betrayal, Frances jumps at the chance to meet up with the illustrious Mr. Poe at a little literary gathering, if only to help her fledgling career. Although not a great enthusiast of Poe’s composing, she is nonetheless overwhelmed by his magnetic presence-and the surprising revelation that he admires her function.

What follows is usually a flirtation, a seduction, then an illicit affair…and with each clandestine encounter, Frances discovers herself falling gradually and inexorably under the spell of her mysterious, complicated lover. However when Edgar’s frail wife, Virginia, insists on befriending Frances as well, the relationship turns into as dark and twisted as one of Poe’s tales. And like those gothic heroines whose fates are forever sealed, Frances starts to fear that deceiving Mrs. Poe may be as impossible as cheating death itself…

And don’t skip the next captivating novel from Lynn Cullen-Twain’s End-where the acclaimed author tells a fictionalized imagining of the relationship between iconic writer Mark Twain and his personal secretary, Isabel Lyon.