Man - Magic - Machine

In Victorian-era Campden, a machine-created portal has opened a passageway to a magical realm. Magic flows in the town unlike anywhere else in the British Empire...or the world...and has created unique opportunities. The magic is powerful and, for humans, extremely addictive.

Alexander Asherton, Ash to his friends, has fallen prey to the alluring promises of the magic. In his fallen state, the only employment he finds is with a clandestine organization that provides him with his life-sustaining magic in exchange for his thieving services. The arrangement works well enough for both parties until Ash receives an assignment that is all-too personal: recover a magical item in the possession of his ex-wife.

Thus is he thrown into a world of intrigue and control, where the machinations of science are combined with the sorceries of magic.  The maestro of such twisted possibilities is the enigmatic and dangerous Duke Schaever, whose secrets Ash begins to uncover.  It is those secrets the Duke will go to any length to protect - including eliminating any who get in his way!

The first book of a Steampunk - Dark Fantasy trilogy from the Dragon Award nominated and Imadjinn Award winning author!