Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby Deborah Smith whose benefactor has just been

whose benefactor has just been murdered

brutally murdered during the French Revolution

but his innate impulses--though curbed by his biological and chosen family's communal care--threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life

” —Catherine Lacey

Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby Deborah Smith whose benefactor has just beenA gothic feminist body horror in two timelines revolving around three Anatomical Venusesultrarealistic wax figures of womenthat come to life at night to murder men who have wronged them. Seoul, present day. Antiques dealer Alyss task is nearly complete. She has at last secured Elizabeth, the final anatomical Venus in a dangerously intertwined trio. Crafted in eighteenth century London and modeled after real life sex workers to entice male medical