β Scribed by Philippa Ballantine
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Evil is most assuredly afootand Britains fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade . . . and a librarian.
These are dark days indeed in Victorias 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 Occurrencesthe Crowns clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettlingwill 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 shes 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 Braunhe with his encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devicesmust get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot . . . or see England fall to the Phoenix!
Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences [01]
Formats : EPUB
Read : Want to Read
ISBN : 9780062049766
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