Manners and Monsters

Hannah Miles navigates the etiquette of monster hunting through the parlours of a magical Regency England. This collection contains: Manners and Monsters, Galvanism and Ghouls, and Gossip and Gorgons.

A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay...Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation...The obnoxious Viscount Wycliff thinks to employ Hannah purely as a front to satisfy Whitehall, but she'll have none of that.

A new unnatural horror is about to rattle Hannah Miles' quiet existence, and it's not the short-tempered viscount prowling the hallways. Someone is creating a monster by stitching together pieces of different people. When a limb makes an escape attempt, Viscount Wycliff is called to investigate. All of London knows there is one mad scientist among them capable of creating such an ungodly monster...Sir Warren Miles.

The newly married Lord and Lady Wycliff are cordially invited to a house party - to be mocked and ridiculed as entertainment. Wycliff insists on attending to discuss business with the host, while Hannah longs to hide in the library with its rare volumes on the Fae. Bound to Wycliff even beyond death, Hannah wonders how she will survive the week, when a guest unexpectedly expires.

When the curse changes inside Hannah, the mission to find a cure intensifies. Meanwhile, Hannah and Wycliff continue to investigate Unnatural murders, even as the cases circle closer and closer to home. 

Being popular is such a drain.... Someone is supping upon young noblemen, and it's up to Hannah and Wycliff to investigate. But how to catch the killer? If it is indeed a vampyre, known for their impeccable fashion sense, nocturnal roaming, and dislike of rain...it could be anyone among dozens of fops and dandies. With her best friend's wedding imminent, Hannah is determined that the event be untouched by murder or mayhem. To ensure a magical fairy-tale event, they must catch the murderer before the big day. 

Hannah and Wycliff arrive at his ancestral estate in Dorset as tragedy strikes the coastal village. A young woman has lost her life to the tempestuous ocean, but only Hannah suspects the woman's death is anything but a horrible accident. As Hannah learns more about life in the close-knit community, she discovers two other women lost their lives to the sea. Or did they?

One of London's most recognisable Afflicted is erased from the earth in a fiery way. Whispers spread that a hellhound prowls the streets, snatching the lost souls who have escaped the afterworld. Except, Wycliff is doing no such thing - could there possibly be another such creature in London?