The Mesmerist: A Novel Music But things are more complicated

But things are more complicated than they seem in this sunny pocket of English high society

who was a committed homemaker and traditional wife

dreams of a future in which science will free humans of their limitations and allow them to be reborn as divine machines

and each other―and find a way to survive and thrive in a world that wasn’t built for them

and the womanizing best man she’s dreading meeting to a handsome also-stranded stranger at the bar

The Mesmerist: A Novel Music But things are more complicatedImmersive and compelling . . . The Mesmerist will linger long after you turn the last page. NPR Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. In 1894 Minneapolis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the rage, and women are dying under mysterious circumstances. When a new guest arrives at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers, refusing to speak, the stories of unexplained deaths seem unconnecteduntil Faiths suspicious reticence sets the house abuzz with whispers