num_pages: 104
description: Thee of stars A ship of dead with iced men who shatter; The Terror sails into the Port of London during Englands worst winter bringing insidious ice fog and a hidden killer. Secret Commission agents Artifice the artificial ghost and Jim Dastard the animated skull track their murderer to the frozen Thames Frost Fair only for Art to discover a deadlier dangerone involving the women she holds dear. A steampunk gaslamp and horror mystery set in the world of the Dark Victorian series. Smart. Engaging. The fog literally creeps off the page.  Melanie Karsak author of the Amazon best-selling steampunk series The Airship Racing Chronicles Experience female detective mysteries with a Victorian super heroine: A gaslamp fantasy in a steampunk paranormal London follow the adventures of an uncanny female sleuth and her senior skull partner set in the same alternate world as Elizabeth Watasin's Victorian Gothic series The Elle Black Penny Dreads. Learn more about this intriguing steampunk lesbian series: It is 1880; black arts sorcery had its time to grow in England and to battle the eldritch evils threatening HRH Prince Albert's Secret Commission is born. Executed criminals are brought back to life without memories to fight as agents and among those resurrected is Artifice a six foot two tall strongwoman Quaker and artificial ghost guided by her senior partner Jim Dastard the animated skull. And she soon discoversfrom her encounters with a madwoman journalist a mysterious woman in black and a French prostitutewhere her heart lies . . . ICE DEMON is a penny dreadful from speculative fiction storyteller Elizabeth Watasin who delights in bringing you shilling shockers immersed in Gothic Victorian mystery women sleuths and the eldritch vestiges of an otherworldly London. Read more in Dark Victorian: Risen Dark Victorian: Bones and Sundark: An Elle Black Penny Dread.Editor: JoSelle Vanderhooft
language: English
title: Ice Demon
publisher: A-Girl Studio