These are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing washed up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences – the Crown’s clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and the unsettling will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter rest…. and she’s prepared to drag her timorous new partner, Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray For a malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. And Books and Braun- he with his encyclopaedic brain and she with her remarkable devices- must get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot … or see England fall to the Phoenix.” Phoenix Rising is written by both Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris and is the first boo...