Book Description:
London, 1860
Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen
and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural
crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life
feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name
of duty.
Minerva Shaw is desperately seeking a doctor
when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her daughter Ivy has fallen
gravely ill with a mysterious illness—the same illness, it seems, that's
responsible for taking the lives of many of Ivy's classmates.
Seb sniffs a case, and taking in Minnie and
Ivy seems the only way to protect them while he solves it. But as mother and
daughter work their way into his heart and Seb uses every magickal and
technological resource he can muster to uncover the source of the deadly
plague, it's he who will need protecting—from emotions he'd thought
buried long ago.
Short
Excerpt:
Police Inspector Sebastian Brown stirred
the coals in his study’s small iron grate. The clock on the wall chimed quarter
past two. Another night with no sleep, then. Bloody hell, this insomnia was
getting to be a habit. Perhaps he should ask his superior to move him to the
graveyard shift. If he was going to be awake all night, maybe he’d be able to
rest during the day. It was better than what he was doing now, getting no sleep
at all. At forty, he was too old to keep that up indefinitely. He eyed the
half-empty decanter of brandy on his desk but shook his head. He’d tried that
for the last couple of nights, and all it had earned him was a headache to go
along with his fatigue. That, he could do without. It was bad enough that the
British winter made his hip hurt like hell—except he knew from experience that
hell was hot and dry, not frigid and damp.
