Who is Elle Black?
Elle Black, an unconventional psychic detective in an
unconventional Victorian marriage, leaves her lovely lesbian wife
to answer a desperate plea. Guests are vanishing in a mechanical
hotel known as the Sundark, and Elle must use her 'anomalous
perturbationist' gift-the ability to move objects with her mind-to
save herself and the remaining hotel residents from malevolent,
sidereal powers. But with apparitions appearing, magnetic lines
disrupted, and clairvoyant guests lurking, who is the true
murderer...or murderess?Add to your collection of female detective
mysteries:
A gaslamp fantasy in a steampunk, paranormal London, follow the
telekinetic Elle Black, a twenty-two year old, happily remarried
widow, as she solves mysteries in the same alternate world as The
Dark Victorian series by Elizabeth Watasin. Where Secret Commission
agents Artifice and Jim Dastard haven't time to tread, Elle Black
will take up the lead and follow.Experience a bonus Art
Gallery:
The paperback version of Sundark: An Elle Black Penny Dread,
contains a small gallery of illustrations by Elizabeth
Watasin.Learn more about this thrilling, lesbian historical fiction
series:
Deep in London's Chiselhurst lies the Sundark, a magnificent,
mechanical manor built in earlier times by a master illusionist and
his occultist wife. Its guests have been known to stay, only to
never be seen again. Now converted into a hotel, is this rumor some
publicity lure or a cover for fleeing, non-paying residents? Elle
Black, a housewife and telekinetic among London detectives and
Secret Commission agents, is summoned to solve this mystery as more
victims vanish, faster than before.
What Victorian Gothic adventure awaits as the psychic sleuth leaves
her beautiful, lesbian wife Faedra to investigate the seemingly
harmless, clockwork turnings of Sundark's rooms and towers? The
cynical and rough Mr. Hardwick, current owner of the Sundark,
dismisses Elle's ability to solve his hotel's mystery. But during
her first nightly vigil, Elle slips into the chilling,
preternatural past as ghosts walk, gaslamps become candles, floors
and walls mechanically move, and yet another unlucky guest screams
in terror and vanishes.
Did a paranormal force abduct the latest victim? What are the blue
fires, and what is Abigail Sundark's ghost trying to tell Elle? And
is it, as the sleuth suspects, a case of murder? Elle must deal
with a sinister gardener, a self-styled ghost chaser, spiritualists
claiming to be clairvoyants, and a very obstinate, thick-headed
hotel owner, who not only refuses to leave but seems to have his
own tragic secret.
As Elle delves further into the mystery, one horror is apparent:
more death awaits, both in the ghost filled past and in the present
as the Sundark loses yet another guest to unseen malevolence. And
when Elle discovers that the house sits upon the triple crossroad
of ancient corpse roads, she can't discount its foreboding
connection to Abigail Sundark's chosen chthonic, tripartite deity,
the underworld goddess Hekate.
But whatever is behind the vanishings did not count on making Elle
angry...
Sundark: An Elle Black Penny Dread, is the latest gaslamp fantasy
from speculative fiction storyteller Elizabeth Watasin, who
delights in bringing you shilling shockers immersed in Gothic
Victorian mystery, women sleuths, and the eldritch vestiges of a
steampunk, paranormal London. Enjoy this twist of lesbian
historical fiction and look for more of Elle Black as she wrestles
with the 'small', local horrors Secret Commission agents Artifice
and Jim Dastard are too busy to take on.
Stay Up To Date: to stay up to date on new releases from Elizabeth
Watasin, visit her Amazon Author Page:
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