Evil is
most assuredly afoot—and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade
. . . and a librarian.
These
are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then
reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood
and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences—the Crown’s clandestine
organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling—will not allow its
agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however,
with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to
let the matter rest . . . and she’s prepared to drag her timorous new partner,
Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray.
For a
malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent
upon the enslavement of all Britons. And Books and Braun—he with his
encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices—must get to the twisted
roots of a most nefarious plot . . . or see England fall to the Phoenix!
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