London, 1888. A killer is stalking Whitechapel. Clara Harrow knows exactly who he is. She intends to marry him.To the rest of London, Thomas Griffith is ordinary.Quiet. Respectable. Hardworking.To Clara, he is the only man who has ever known every ugly, jealous, hungry part of her and loved her anyway.So when Thomas finally confesses the truth about the women he believes destroyed his mother, Clara does not recoil. She does not beg him to forget his revenge.She understands.Perhaps a little too well.Soon, women are dying in the gaslit streets of Whitechapel, newspapers are screaming about a monster, and London is desperate to put a face to the killer haunting its darkest alleys.Clara is more concerned with making sure Thomas eats his breakfast.She washes the stains from his clothes. She waits for him to come home. She studies every newspaper report and bristles at every detail the journalists get wrong. While the city grows terrified of the man behind the murders, Clara finds herself falling even more deeply in love with him.Because Thomas may be dangerous.But he is hers.And the more Clara becomes involved in protecting the man she loves, the more difficult one question becomes to answer:Is she standing beside a monster...or helping create one?Set amid the fog, gaslight and blood-soaked streets of Victorian London, The Ripper's Bride is a dark historical horror romance filled with obsessive love, psychological corruption, Jack the Ripper mythology, twisted devotion, black humour and a couple whose greatest danger may be how perfectly they understand each other. Read more
