Ashes & Alchemy By Cindy Spencer Pape A Gaslight Chronicles novella 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. 30,000 words
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Ashes & Alchemy By Cindy Spencer Pape A Gaslight Chronicles novella 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. 30,000 words