Elizabeth (Maidens & Monsters #5)

*Each Sunday for ten years, the young and prominent Maidens of Mapleton club have met in the town schoolhouse and told each other all. A town with a violent past, now-booming Mapleton dotes on its favorite daughters: Christine, a performer at the town's beautiful music hall, Mina, the daughter of the newspaper owner, Esme, a ward of the church and Lucy and Elizabeth, daughters of the widower Mayor-one ladylike, the other a hellion. Slowly, the truth begins to cloud. The pieces of the past don't add up, and familiar tales and faces fail to comfort. In this five novella series from Marie Piper, comprised of Old West adaptations of gothic/horror tales, the Maidens find their friendships tested, fall in (and out) of love, and are forced to unravel the mystery of that one terrible day. What really happened on the day of the Mapleton Massacre?*

In the final installment, a mystery/romance take on Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, the youngest and bravest of the Maidens of Mapleton, Elizabeth Carew, has fled for Denver with railroad man Walton Wolf. But Walton isn't who he said he was, Elizabeth isn't who she thought she was, and monsters from the past soon follow our heroine across the cold landscape of the west. Are we who we are by our nature, or by choice? And once trust has been killed, can it live again?