The Prudential Light

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Victorian paranormal romance with steampunk magic and a touch of gothic horror</em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A book of manners magic and mayhem...</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Aunt Prudence Wainwright famously daunting dragon lady of the Hardcastle family has set herself to writing her memoirs.</span> <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But which Prudence will have her story come out? </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will it be the maiden aunt who lived quietly in a small village bringing up her niece Milly and sewing and embroidering to her heart's content? Maybe it will be the outrageously-dressed old busybody whose battle of wills with her niece Jemima unfolded in Ruby Heart? Better yet the doughty old warrior hidden under the lace and brocade who fought off villains with her hatpins and umbrella in Emerald Fire? Perhaps it will be the family matriarch featured in Amber Rose prim dependable astute at procuring baked goods and deft at baby wrangling who is at times a tad flirtatious with the older gentry? Or will these memoirs reveal yet another side of Prudence that the rest of the Hardcastles have yet to see? </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With the family's magical gifts running through her veins there will be plenty to astonish her relations: adventures abandonment heartbreak secret loves and dangers. But with new babies on the scene marriage proposals battles with rogue magicians and the very past she is recalling bursting back into her life in startling ways how will she ever find the time to finish writing!</span></p>