A new Victorian chiller from the author of The Silent Companions. Can the shape of a person’s skull foretell their destiny? For Dorothea, this is fact. But when she is led to teenage seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. But the story Ruth has to tell – of bitterness, betrayal, death and dresses – will shake Dorothea’s beliefs.