Elle Black Penny Dreads

Elle Black, an unconventional psychic detective in an unconventional Victorian marriage, leaves her housewifely duties to answer a desperate plea. Guests are vanishing in a mechanical hotel known as the Sundark, and Elle must use her 'anomalous perturbationist' gift--the ability to moves objects with her mind--to save herself and the remaining hotel residents from malevolent, sidereal powers. But with apparitions appearing, magnetic lines disrupted, and clairvoyant guests lurking, who is the true murderer---or murderess?Gaslamp, steampunk, Gothic Victorian horror and mystery; bringing you an uncanny heroine in a mechanical, paranormal, alternate world London. Join Elle Black in her supernatural adventuress tales! Elizabeth Watasin is the acclaimed author of the Gothic steampunk novel The Dark Victorian: RISEN and the creator/artist of the indie comics series Charm School. She has worked as an animator on thirteen Disney feature films, including Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and The Princess and the Frog, and has written for Disney Adventures magazine. She lives in Los Angeles with her black cat named Draw.

Faced with a vampyre once-husband returned from the dead, Elle Black, the psychic detective, flees London with her wife Faedra to answer an heiress friend's plea: what is causing the eerie change in Peasy's mother and staff? In Peaseflower estate, strange dogs roam, servants come in twins and triplets, and Peasy's scientific wonder, her immense conservatory, houses the rarest exotics and botanical treasures yet to be revealed to men–including one mysterious and highly guarded specimen. Elle must discover what's gone wrong at Peaseflower, but the world of plants has its defenses…and horrors. When she rushes to save Faedra from a killer and the secret, uncanny presence speaking inside her mind, Elle risks madness-and poison.