First published 2024
During the annual Masquerade Festival, a magician's assistant disappears mid-performance, transforming a routine investigation into a dangerous magical hunt. Detective Inspector Peter Grant discovers the festival conceals an intricate underground of occult practitioners, each with their own lethal agenda. As more performers start vanishing and ritualistic clues emerge, Grant realizes someone is orchestrating a catastrophic magical event that threatens not just individual lives, but potentially the entire magical ecosystem of London. With multiple hidden factions maneuvering and time rapidly closing in, Grant must unravel a complex web of magical deception before a devastating supernatural convergence occurs.
Genres: mystery, fantasy, thriller, urban-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: hidden-agenda, race-against-time
Setting: Masquerade Festival
Period: Contemporary
165 pages · Hardcover · Orion