The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

In the marble haze of a Victorian health spa, women bare their bodies and their secrets. When the enigmatic Princess Zairoff arrives at a luxurious English hotel, her otherworldly beauty and whispered occult powers send ripples through the steam. An American widow with keen instincts watches closely, growing fascinated by the princess and her troubled past. A dark connection binds the princess to Colonel Estcourt, another guest, and as their story unravels, the line between the mundane and the supernatural blurs. Set in the intimate, transgressive space of the Turkish bath where Victorian women escape the constraints of society to discuss their bodies and desires, this is sensation fiction at its most tantalizing: a mystery wrapped in steam, where past sins and mysterious powers collide.