Still reeling from a disastrous undertaking in Persia, a team of Victorian ghost hunters must explore, analyze, and vanquish the home-grown horrors that have targeted a quiet village in the form of a Black Dog, a sorrowing ghost, and a rebellious vicar's daughter.
1856. Miss Susan Pickering, spinster, has lived at Hollytree House all her life, unaware that the land it stands on lies under a terrible curse. Now without warning the spectre of a medieval monk is menacing the halls with deadly intent, slipping into the dreams of her servants and lodgers to seduce and torment-and worse. With her household in a panic and malicious sprites at large, it's clear the true target is strong-minded Susan herself. Hand in hand with her lodger-and ardent admirer-investigative reporter Ned Donovan, Miss Pickering will have to defy propriety and explore the ghosts of her own past to break the ancient curse and send the Prior of St Audrey's back to his fiendish master. Readers of Maggie Secara's intense historical fantasy, King's Raven, will be delighted to reconnect with prickly Miss Pickering and the irrepressible Mr Donovan as they venture into a world of magic and mayhem in Victorian England.
A scrap of parchment with a mysterious sigil... A message in a forgotten language... A mermaid paradise of waterfalls and dreams... And Ben Harper's life is about to get complicated-again. 1593 Scarred by fires inside and out, barred by his heritage from any kind of grace, half-fae Silence Carew longs for the comfort of a human soul. His life is one of unending anger and despair, until the day the voices in his head offer a monstrous solution. If he can find the nerve, and the Mermaid Stair, the reward he seeks can be bought with the blood of his mother's people, the nymphs and mermaids of England. 2013 When the ageless lord of the River Thames is jolted out of retirement by news of horrific death among his nymphs, he calls on the king of Faerie for aid. Already alerted by disturbing visions, Oberon's principal gentlemen, Ben Harper and acerbic, shape-changing Raven, find themselves once again in service-this time on the trail of a monster. With only Ben's gift of finding and faerie music as a guide, vague clues lead them on a terrible chase through London's many-layered history to a mythic confrontation on the banks of a vanished river. Only the gods know what will come of it all! TRUST THE WATER
Reality TV host Ben Harper has a problem: he owes the king of Faerie a favor. So now he has to track down the three parts of a Viking arm-ring, and return them to their place in time. This takes him through the wolf-haunted forests of Viking Age Wessex, the rowdy back streets of Shakespeare's London, and a derelict Georgian country house. Partnered with caustic, shape-changing Raven and guided by a slightly wacky goblin diary, Ben must rediscover his own gifts while facing his doubts and the queen of Faerie's minions, who will do anything to stop him.
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