The books that have been
collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it
Fed up with his desk duty in the Imperial Arcane Library, book hunter
Colin Bliss accepts a private commission to find The Sword’s Shadow, a
legendary and dangerous witches’ grimoire. But to find the book, Colin must
travel to the remote Western Isles and solve a centuries’ old murder.
It should be nothing more than an academic exercise, so why is dour —
and unreasonably sexy — Magister Septimus Marx doing his best to keep Colin
from accepting this mission — even going so far as to seduce Colin on their
train journey north?
Septimus is not the only problem. Who is the strange fairy woman that
keeps appearing at inconvenient times? And who is working behind the scenes
with the sinister adventuress Irania Briggs? And why do Colin’s employers at
the Museum of the Literary Occult keep accusing Colin of betraying them?
As Colin digs deeper and deeper into the Long Island’s mysterious past,
he begins to understand why Septimus is willing to stop him at any price — but
by then, it’s too late to turn back.
The Darkling Thrush
First published April 2010 by Loose Id
Second edition October 2012
by Josh Lanyon
iBook, 138 pages
Contemporary Mysterious
Romance
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The letter
was addressed to Mr. Colin Bliss.
It sat
on my desk, propped against the framed photograph of Anthony and me. This
reminded me that, as we were no longer “an item,” I really needed to dispose
of that photograph of my chief and me. It was bound to look a trifle like I
was sucking up, and I’d already done enough of that in every conceivable
form.
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