Broadsides

“You can’t simply take my skeleton!”
“Borrowing. Renting, if you like.”

Kian has a problem. Someone’s murdered one of the London Church’s necromancers, and he’s the person expected to find out how, why, who, and all those lovely details, and then Deal With It.

Rosemary also has a problem. His name is Kian, and he’s just staggered into her clinic with an iron bar in his thigh and a bag full of organs belonging to a dead necromancer.

Now Rosemary’s clinic skeleton is about to have a problem too.

Urbane and grotesque, magic and mystery meet in the first book of this new and rising series.

Triggers

Killing
Violent assault

Squicks

Graphic descriptions of organs
Injuries to eyes
Instances of physiological body horror
Forced memory loss
Magical coercion
Manipulation of blood outside the body
Instances of self-mutilation

Kinks

None

“I don’t suppose any of the names you’ve dug up conveniently have ‘experimentation with death magic’ listed on their profiles?”
“Naturally, no one is that considerate.”

There’s a wildcard in London. Mages don’t, as a rule, like wildcards. Especially ones who target healers. Especially ones whose identity isn’t known.

There’s a wildcard in London. Kian isn’t, strictly speaking, obligated to find them. But he does owe Rosemary. And he doesn’t like it when socially-expected rules get broken.

There’s a wildcard in London. His name is Kian ó Maolomhnaigh.

Another page-turning instalment in the magic and mystery of Broadsides.

Triggers

Killing
Violent assault

Squicks

Injuries to hands
Instances of physiological body horror
Forced memory loss
Magical infections
Manipulation of blood outside the body
Instances of self-mutilation

Kinks

None

“Are you alright?”
“No.”

Magic is officially out of the closet. Unfortunately, Kian’s still in — stuffed in, if he’s unlucky.

A lot of people are interested in Kian right now. Some of them more than others. Some of them lethally.

Not even a healer might be able to save him from this one.

And trying could wind up dooming her too.

Life and limb are at stake in the third gripping book in Broadsides.

Triggers

Killing
Domestic abuse (offscreen)
Violent assault

Squicks

Manipulation of blood outside the body
Physiological body horror
Instance of implied self-mutilation
Suicidal thoughts (mild non-graphic)

Kinks

None

“I wasn’t sure the Mark would accept that.”
“It’s useful to be owed something after all, no?”

The trial of the century is ongoing. Extensively. Draggingly. Excruciatingly.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much Rosemary can do to make it go faster. And there’s only so far she can press ‘doctor-patient’ privilege when there’s magic involved. Even when Kian owes her. Even when there’s a receipt.

Of course, that doesn’t mean others haven’t been trying alternate ways to … shorten the process.

The problem is when one of them succeeds.

The fourth book balancing light and dark in the magical mysteries of Broadsides.

Triggers

Coercion
Emotional abuse (offscreen)
Torture (non-physical)

Squicks

Animal death
Burns
Instance of drowning (non-lethal)
Magical coercion
Physiological body horror
Instance of self-mutilation
Manipulation of blood outside the body
Rodents
Trauma effects.

Kinks

None