It is the 1920s, and Spiritualism is all the rage. With séances taking place in parlors across the country and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arguing metaphysics in the papers, the media embraces the feverish national obsess-sion with the paranormal. Indeed, in 1922, Scientific American offer s ＄ 5,000 for conclusive evidence of “psychic manifestations.”
Inspired by this real-life event, Inamorata follows Martin Finch, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate student and member of Scientific Amer-Ican's investigative committee, on the case of a lifetime-an examination of the powers of Philadel-phia “society psychic” Mina Crawley. In the tiny upstairs room of Dr. and Mrs. Crawley's elegant Rittenhouse Square town home, Finch prepares to debunk a fraud. But instead the young man of science finds himself falling under the spell of the beguiling and beautiful Mrs. Crawley.
As the investigation explodes across the national headlines and the committee succumbs to infight-ing, it's left to Finch-a young man in over his head-to confront the uncanny, and uncover a truth darker than any he could have expected.
