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Written by Pip Ballantine
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Language: English
Evil is most assuredly afoot鈥攁nd Britain鈥檚 fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade . . . and a librarian.
These are dark days indeed in Victoria鈥檚 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鈥攖he Crown鈥檚 clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling鈥攚ill 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鈥檚 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鈥攈e with his encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices鈥攎ust get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot . . . or see England fall to the Phoenix!
