What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens
Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London, the
Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing, a veritable
fortress, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She
had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi
Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadows, of the Ripper
and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie
stood guard. She saw simply that she was different,
haunted, with her snow white hair, pearlescent skin and
uncanny gift. This arched stone doorway was a portal to a
new life, to an education far from what could be had at a
convent—and it was an invitation to an intimate yet
dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death...
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