![]() Hard on the heels of that horrifying discovery comes a lawman who has been chasing this killer for months. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap-a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. ![]() Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house-a resourceful group-and the poor and the powerful of the town. Set in the late nineteenth century-in a city a lot like what we now call Seattle Underground-when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. 'Hôtel' has a little hat over the o like that. ![]() See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. ![]() You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. ![]()
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