Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London: A Victorian Gothic Romance
A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice.
A Victorian Gothic Romance for all time.

In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever-or whatever-caused her Egyptologist husband's uncanny demise.

Everything changes when a mysterious encounter at a fortuneteller shop leads Elizabeth to join the Esoteric Order of Magisophists, a secret society and college of magic. But with her new life comes new peril, and even the occultists of the Order dread the infamous Doctor D'Arco: a grim, brooding, demon-summoning professor of sorcery, his imposing presence intensified by his black cloak, steel mask, and the unsettling sensation of darkness that emanates from him like a deep shadow.

Now the sorcerer Doctor D'Arco seeks an apprentice to join him in banishing a ghastly rival-and Elizabeth proves to have precisely the talent he requires.

Inspired in part by vintage Gothic, Romantic, and Victorian literature and written in compelling, sensual prose, Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London is a tale of mystery, adventure, supernatural thrills, eerie suspense... and most of all, of a young widow's secret, longing love for the dark sorcery professor to whom she is apprenticed, her fear of him slowly smoldering into a dangerous desire.
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Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London: A Victorian Gothic Romance
A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice.
A Victorian Gothic Romance for all time.

In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever-or whatever-caused her Egyptologist husband's uncanny demise.

Everything changes when a mysterious encounter at a fortuneteller shop leads Elizabeth to join the Esoteric Order of Magisophists, a secret society and college of magic. But with her new life comes new peril, and even the occultists of the Order dread the infamous Doctor D'Arco: a grim, brooding, demon-summoning professor of sorcery, his imposing presence intensified by his black cloak, steel mask, and the unsettling sensation of darkness that emanates from him like a deep shadow.

Now the sorcerer Doctor D'Arco seeks an apprentice to join him in banishing a ghastly rival-and Elizabeth proves to have precisely the talent he requires.

Inspired in part by vintage Gothic, Romantic, and Victorian literature and written in compelling, sensual prose, Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London is a tale of mystery, adventure, supernatural thrills, eerie suspense... and most of all, of a young widow's secret, longing love for the dark sorcery professor to whom she is apprenticed, her fear of him slowly smoldering into a dangerous desire.
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Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London: A Victorian Gothic Romance

Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London: A Victorian Gothic Romance

by Kathryn Colvin
Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London: A Victorian Gothic Romance

Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London: A Victorian Gothic Romance

by Kathryn Colvin

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Overview

A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice.
A Victorian Gothic Romance for all time.

In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever-or whatever-caused her Egyptologist husband's uncanny demise.

Everything changes when a mysterious encounter at a fortuneteller shop leads Elizabeth to join the Esoteric Order of Magisophists, a secret society and college of magic. But with her new life comes new peril, and even the occultists of the Order dread the infamous Doctor D'Arco: a grim, brooding, demon-summoning professor of sorcery, his imposing presence intensified by his black cloak, steel mask, and the unsettling sensation of darkness that emanates from him like a deep shadow.

Now the sorcerer Doctor D'Arco seeks an apprentice to join him in banishing a ghastly rival-and Elizabeth proves to have precisely the talent he requires.

Inspired in part by vintage Gothic, Romantic, and Victorian literature and written in compelling, sensual prose, Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London is a tale of mystery, adventure, supernatural thrills, eerie suspense... and most of all, of a young widow's secret, longing love for the dark sorcery professor to whom she is apprenticed, her fear of him slowly smoldering into a dangerous desire.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798991092319
Publisher: Kathryn Colvin
Publication date: 08/15/2024
Pages: 648
Sales rank: 193,191
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.43(d)

About the Author

One way or another, Kathryn Colvin has always been writing something weird. She got her start dictating surrealistic and entirely unhinged monster stories to her grandfather “Moon Rock” before she could spell the words herself, later wrote and performed in theatrical adaptations of Tolkien novels, and then wrote and directed her own feature-length retro superhero sci-fi B-movie, The Teenage Mummies from Beyond, shown at an independent movie theater in Portland, Oregon. During her time in college (some years after high school) she majored in English literature, published peer-reviewed articles as an undergrad, and successfully avoided taking any creative writing courses.

Now a novelist and an independent researcher, Kathryn’s writing is the fruit of a lifelong passion for storytelling and the strange. Inspired by her interests in the Gothic, the supernatural, romance, Romanticism, folklore, and pop culture—particularly the love lives and influence of the Byronic hero and Elizabethan villain-hero—her academic work includes articles in the journals Brontë Studies and Mythlore, and her debut Victorian Gothic romance novel is Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London.
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