![]() ![]() Poe, who acts like an innocent child, is actually more manipulative and threatening than she appears. ![]() Poe wants Frances to meet with his wife since she claims to be an admirer of her poems, and Frances is curious to see the woman whom Edgar married.Īs Frances spends more and more time with the intriguing couple, her intense attraction for Edgar brings her into dangerous territory. ![]() She meets the handsome and mysterious Poe at a literary party, and the two have an immediate connection. As Frances tries to sell her work, she finds that editors are only interested in writing similar to that of the new renegade literary sensation Edgar Allan Poe, whose poem, “The Raven” has struck a public nerve. It is 1845, and Frances Osgood is desperately trying to make a living as a writer in New York not an easy task for a woman-especially one with two children and a philandering portrait painter as her husband. A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe-at the same time she becomes the unwilling confidante of his much-younger wife. ![]()
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