Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason, as her old friend Grace MacDonald Pollocke discovers, is far more personal. Grace, now a Philadelphia portrait painter, undertakes a perilous investigation that leads to the discovery of old sins and crimes, and the commission of new ones. What laws may be brokenwhat sins and crimes committedin the service of a higher justice? Deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury . . . even murder?Why would a runaway Virginia slavehaving built a rewarding life in the East Indies as a silk merchantrisk everything by returning to America in 1840, eighteen years after taking her freedom?
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