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Have you ever been certain you saw something out of the corner of your eye, only to find there’s nothing there? Or visited somewhere that feels "special" somehow and you can’t figure out why? Lucy could tell you all about that. When she senses an eerie presence in her room one night, she has no way of knowing she’s about to go on an adventure. A journey that will take her to ancient, magical places just hidden from the world she knows.

When I lost my brother suddenly in September 2018, I felt as though my world had ended. Grief brings so many raw emotions, and trying to move on from a loss like that is truly a powerful and difficult journey. In this collection, I bring you along on that journey with me, opening my soul and sharing all the deep emotions that I felt at each step of the way. These poems are honest, and express how I experienced the stages of grief, and I hope through my words you can find something to connect to.

Lyra will stop at nothing to achieve her father’s dream of dissolving parliament into anatomical sludge and to search out the farthest reaches of science and the arcane arts. That is, until her own dreams begin to awaken, jolted by the electric sparkle of an artist’s eyes. Lacking a strong constitution, Alice can only run from her problems, until she collides into the company of a strange young man of questionable occupation and discovers her cousin’s terrible plans.The dead are about to rise, the lords are about to fall, and things are about to get creamy.