A Madness So Discreet

"Grace Mae knows madness..." Set in 1890, readers plunge headfirst into darkness with Grace Mae, a teenager who became pregnant and, at the whim of her father, was imprisoned in an insane asylum. After a chain of events at the asylum causes her to lose her child, a visiting doctor rescues her with an odd proposal: fake her death and become his crime-scene-investigating assistant. This YA historical novel is a piercing look at the madness in ourselves, and in others, and how we all must eventually face that madness. Beautiful and powerful in its delivery.