Including making a great bargain with a spirit so that she can gain enough luck and wisdom to help her father make good investments, thereby securing her family’s fortune and giving her the freedom to pursue magic without being strapped to a husband. The Midnight Bargain features the amazing sorceress Beatrice Clayborn who will do anything to not marry.
She cleaned the chalk marks off the floor, snuffed out every candle, and carefully picked her way down the ladder into her bedroom, where the clock had only a quarter hour left to tick before Clara would come prepare her for the dance.” The Midnight Bargain by C.L. “The spirit inside her fidgeted as she took the circle down, spinning the power back into herself. So I dove right into The Midnight Bargain which was very different but just as beautiful and stunning. Polk’s gorgeous writing style (and how can you ever be?). It’s stunning to me that so much was packed into such a small book it really is a marvel, and I loved it with my whole heart.īy the time I finished Even Though I Knew The End, I wasn’t sated on C.L. The cover, the world, the characters, the world-building. Everything about this novella is gorgeous. It is a beautifully evocative story with a lovely sapphic romance.
Polk’s Witchmark, I knew I would love anything they wrote). I went in knowing nothing (having read C.L. In doing so, she will regain something she lost and desperately wants back, but she will also put the love of her life, Edith, in danger.Īs this is a novella, I don’t want to spoil too much of the story. When an augury doesn’t go quite as planned, she finds herself part of a bigger case- to track down the serial killer known as the White City Vampire. Helen Brandt is an auspex and a detective who uses her powers to uncover the mysteries at a crime scene. Polk back to back, and both were equally amazing and beautiful.Įven Though I Knew The End is a novella set in 1940s Chicago. I recently had the joy of reading two books by C.L.
“Marlowe had offered me fifty dollars to stand out here in the freezing Chicago cold and do an augury, and like a damn greedy fool, I said yes.”
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