num_pages: 324
description: What fortune awaited sweet timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London the Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing a veritable fortress and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman knew nothing of the growing shadows of the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She saw simply that she was different haunted with her snow white hair pearlescent skin and uncanny gift. This arched stone doorway was a portal to a new life to an education far from what could be had at a convent -- and it was an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death...
language: English
title: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
publisher: Leisure Books