Darkness Divined (Dark Devices Book 1)

It is 1520 and King Henry VIII reigns in glorious splendour over his peaceful realm of Merrie England. However darkness and evil has intruded into the glittering sphere of the Royal Court, a servant girl has been found horribly mutilated and murdered. Cardinal Wolsey, the Lord Chancellor requires Francis Bryan, disgraced Royal companion to investigate the foul and loathsome murder. Now Francis knows very well who killed Gwen, the problem is ensuring she stays safely dead while he tracks down the source of the dark magicks of reanimation. As for assistance all Francis can call upon is his miserable servant Bottoph and the self serving Doctor Agryppa, a master of Arcane devices and modern philosophy. Or then, maybe Mistress Annise? That’s if you can trust a drinker of blood.

From the writer of the Red Ned Tudor Mysteries series comes a different view through the glass darkly of the Arcane Underworld of Tudor England. A banquet of the senses, with all the splendour of the Court, not to mention the bloody iron tang of dark machinations, hidden conspiracies and the reanimated dead. The first story in the Dark Devices Series.