In the heart of nineteenth-century Cincinnati, where justice is scarce and danger lurks in every shadow, one woman holds the power to rewrite fate.

Lydia Pelton has a secret. By day, she's a respected author of dime novels, spinning tales of romance and adventure under her own name. By night, she becomes E. A. Dupin, crafting crime and mystery novels that seek to right the wrongs of society. But when her fiction inspires a serial killer to bring her stories to life, Lydia finds herself at the center of one of her own mysteries.

Officer Abraham Hall's reputation for capturing elusive criminals earns him a spot on the case, but his unexpected attraction to Lydia proves as difficult to manage as the woman herself. Working together as detective and author, they must try to uncover the sinister plot that reaches far beyond the pages of her books.

The first in Crystal Caudill's Art of Love & Danger series, Written in Secret will delight fans of Kate Breslin and Elizabeth Camden!