Vennessa Robertson

CANITHROPE

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London, 1899. The old century turns to make way for the new, and Vivian Harper’s fate is in the cards...

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Vivian yearns for freedom—as well as the security to care for those she loves. She is engaged to a drunken, gambling lout but at least he comes from a good name. And yet, she dreams of something more than becoming a man’s property.

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Mysterious murders begin happening in the great city of London, murders that most people are ready to turn a blind eye to in support of the new emporium. But these murders aren’t the only mysterious forces at work. A group of civilians have taken it upon themselves to cleanse the city of all things deemed unnatural or archaic in this rapidly changing world, including her parents—an apothecary and a fortune teller.

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But none of that compares to the mystical world hiding within London. Vivian’s life is turned upside down and she is thrust into a world she never believed existed. A world of magic, pirates, demons, armies of the dead, and a man who seeks to harness ancient magic capable of remaking men into monsters.

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Partnered with the most unlikely of companions, she must find the strength and the power within herself and the magic of the tarot to save everything that she loves.

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London is filled with secrets, including the most remarkable dog with a power no one would believe…

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The first in the Arcane Adventuress series: Canithrope; a better life is waiting for those brave enough to go looking.