Current of Darkness: Desire and Deceit in the Gilded Age The third book in the Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries - publishing Spring 2024. Haunted by her past, detective Sarah Payne immerses herself in a new case . . . while a vengeful Alicia Miller seizes the reins of her murdered husband’s company . . . A secret meeting in nearby Niagara Falls lures beautiful Sarah Payne undercover . . . behind the bright façade of the honeymoon playground and into a much darker place—the strange and perilous underworld of the booming electric power industry. In this shadowy demimonde, a dangerous cabal of union bosses, saboteurs, and tycoons conspire to destroy handsome, enigmatic industrialist Charles Kendall—and will stop at nothing, including murder, to accomplish their ends. This high stakes game of industrial espionage threatens to pull Sarah into a riptide of duplicity, betrayal, and double-dealing . . . and silence her before she uncovers the truth. Meanwhile, in fashionable Ashwood, sultry widow Alicia Miller seizes power at her murdered husband’s envelope company—only to find herself pitted against the new majority owner, who has his own ideas about women in business. But cunning and captivating Alicia has ideas, too . . . and is determined to see them through, even if it means bending—or breaking—a few rules along the way. Both women will have to find the courage and resourcefulness to survive . . . and set aside their own simmering feud to find a way out—together. Dive with them into the murky depths below the gleaming surface of the Gilded Age . . . in Robert Brighton’s Current of Darkness.