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Anibaddh Lyngdoh claimsthat she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the flounderingAmerican silk industry. But her true reason, as her oldfriend Grace MacDonald Pollocke discovers, is far more personal.Grace, now a Philadelphia portrait painter, undertakesa perilous investigation that leads to the discovery of old sinsand crimes, and the commission of new ones. What laws maybe broken what sins and crimes committed in the serviceof a higher justice? Deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury . . . evenmurder?This novel thrillingly evokes a nineteenth-century Americanot so different from the present: a time of stunning newtechnologies and financial collapse, when religious and racialviews collided with avowed principles of morality and law.