This is the story of the men and women whose lives were irrevocably changed by the Chicago World Fair, and of two men in particular: an architect and a serial killer. Spicing the narrative are the stories of a cast of historical characters including Buffalo Bill, Scott Joplin and Theodore Dreiser.
It is 1893 and Anna Zemeckis, a young New Yorker, goes missing in America's most dangerous city: Chicago. Emily Strauss, a reporter from the New York World , is given a treacherous assignment: to find out what happened to Anna. Alone in a dangerous world, she faces a near-impossible task. And, she soon discovers, a powerful enemy.