You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick âe"
But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair bound by tragedy. You will, in time, enter the rooms of Londonâe(tm)s mysterious Aegolius Club âe" a society of the richest, most powerful men in England. And at some point âe" we cannot say when âe" these worlds will collide.
It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, a world of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors âe" and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.
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