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Two months after the horrors of Evershade Manor, Edwin Blackthorn and Julian Thorne are trying to build something like a life together in gaslit London. Edwin has his books, his inherited secrets, and the troubling stirrings of Fae-touched power. Julian has his illegal magic, his underworld contacts, and every reason to distrust the authorities who now need his help.Then Scotland Yard calls them to a morgue.A man has been transformed into solid stone, every detail preserved with impossible precision. The cause is no ordinary curse. It is void-alchemy, a forbidden art that does more than kill. It consumes the soul itself, burning human essence as fuel for transmutation.The first clue points directly to Edwin's family. The next leads to Westgrave Street, the Apothecaries' Guild, and a history of plague-era experiments that were meant to stay buried forever. As more victims appear and London's magical establishment closes ranks, Edwin and Julian must navigate respectable drawing rooms, Whitechapel markets, hidden laboratories, and the poisonous politics of the guilds.But the alchemist behind the crimes is not merely murdering strangers. He is building toward a ritual that could shatter the boundary between life and death, and Edwin's bloodline may be the missing ingredient.To stop him, Edwin and Julian will have to trust each other more completely than ever. Because in a city where grief can become magic and love can become leverage, the dead are not the only ones in danger of being turned to stone.

Julian Thorne is still recovering from the magical injuries that nearly destroyed him. Edwin Blackthorn has been trying to build something like peace around them. But peace does not last in a city where old societies survive behind polished doors and ancient magic waits for the right sky.When a soul-bound coin releases the warning of Edwin's long-dead ancestor, the message is terrifyingly clear: the Erebus Society is not gone. Its members have hidden themselves inside London's most respectable circles, and they are preparing to use a coming solar eclipse to open the city to a realm of living shadow.The trail leads Edwin and Julian from occult shops and gentlemen's clubs to the buried architecture of the Guild Reliquary, where forbidden wards, family bloodlines, and a weapon called the Nocturne Key guard the truth Eleanor Ashworth died trying to protect.Julian's magic is fragile. Edwin's inheritance may be the only key to the final door. And Lady Beatrice Corbin has had years to prepare for the moment when day becomes night.To save London, Edwin and Julian must trust their allies, their courage, and the bond that has carried them through every darkness so far.The Eclipse of Erebus is a gothic MM fantasy mystery with occult intrigue, secret societies, shadow magic, romantic devotion, and supernatural danger.

Edwin Blackthorn and Julian Thorne have spent three months in hiding, armed with evidence they cannot yet use and hunted by enemies too powerful to face openly.Then an invitation arrives.Written in silver ink and sealed with glamour, Lord Ashworth's summons offers entry to London's most exclusive masquerade. To society, it is the season's most coveted event. To Edwin and Julian, it is the first real lead in a conspiracy that has already swallowed aristocrats, altered loyalties, and left perfect imitations walking in place of missing men.The magic recognizes Edwin's Fae-touched blood. It calls to him with promises of beauty, belonging, and ancient inheritance. Julian sees the danger more clearly. Fae bargains are never simple, and the Seelie Court does not issue invitations without expecting payment.At Ashworth Manor, winter roses bloom out of season, guests smile with hollow eyes, and a hidden gate waits behind the music and masks. If Edwin and Julian are to expose the truth, they must navigate glamour, changelings, court politics, and a conspiracy reaching into the heart of the Guild itself.But the deeper they step into the masquerade, the harder it becomes to know which face is real, which promise is safe, and whether love can hold against a court built from beautiful lies.The Fae Masquerade is a dark MM gaslamp fantasy romance mystery featuring Fae courts, changeling intrigue, supernatural investigation, gothic London atmosphere, and a loyal bond tested by magic, power, and deception.

Edwin Blackthorn arrives at Evershade Manor expecting debt, dust, and the grim arithmetic of a failing inheritance. Instead, he finds stopped clocks, impossible chimes, and the sorrowful apparition of a child who should have vanished from family history generations ago.With the estate on the brink of seizure and conventional help useless, Edwin follows whispers into London's hidden night market, where he hires Julian Winter, an exiled mage with dangerous talents and no patience for aristocratic desperation. Julian expects a nervous gentleman and a drafty house. What he finds is far worse: a bound spirit, a blood-soaked magical anchor, and a manor steeped in secrets that refuse to stay buried.As Edwin and Julian dig through old ledgers, sealed rooms, and the Blackthorn family's occult past, their reluctant contract becomes something more intimate and far more dangerous. Edwin's bloodline carries a Fae-touched legacy he barely understands. Julian's past has made him a hunted man. And the force inside Evershade Manor is growing stronger with every passing night.To survive, they must trust each other before the house turns on them completely. But some ghosts do not want vengeance alone. Some want the truth brought into the light, no matter what it costs the living.Spectres of Evershade Manor is a gothic boys' love fantasy mystery featuring haunted manor atmosphere, Fae bloodline magic, an exiled mage, a scholarly heir, slow-burn MM romance, and supernatural danger.

Javier Mendoza has survived the slums by becoming invisible. With shadows, lock picks, and forbidden magic, he slips through noble estates and steals from the wealthy enough to forget what they own.Then Captain Cassian Thorne catches him.Cassian has evidence enough to end Javier's life, but he wants something more useful than a public execution. The palace is rotting from within. Nobles are taking bribes, public money is disappearing, and the people meant to be protected by the Crown are paying the price. Cassian needs someone who can move where guards cannot, bypass magical wards, and uncover proof no official investigation could reach.Javier has no reason to trust the captain who blackmailed him. Cassian has no reason to trust the thief he has forced into service. But every secret they uncover pulls them deeper into a conspiracy that threatens the city, Javier's found family, and the fragile order Cassian has spent his life defending.As danger closes around them, suspicion turns into partnership, and partnership into something neither man can afford to name.In a world of gilded cages, hidden magic, and corrupt power, freedom may depend on the one person Javier was never supposed to trust.