Most Likely to….
Surprise everyone: Pamela Colman Smith, the central character in the Arcana Oracle Series, (MAGICIAN AND FOOL, HIGH PRIESTESS AND EMPRESS, EMPEROR AND HIEROPHANT) is a wild card, commissioned to create an occult tarot deck, while learning the extent of her magical powers. Expect the unexpected!
Deviate from the plan: One of Pamela’s familiars is inconsistent in appearance and ability to follow instructions. Found in all three books in the series.
Sympathize with someone when nobody else will: Dame Ellen Terry, the muse in HIGH PRIESTESS AND EMPRESS, is a surrogate mother to Pamela, and a beacon of empathy.
Keep their true intentions hidden: Sir Henry Irving, as magician in MAGICIAN AND FOOL and actor-manager of the Lyceum Theatre, strategizes is to keep Pamela, her fellow Lyceum Theatre company members, and the Syndicate guessing.
Coming up with the best strategy: Bram Stoker, muse in EMPEROR AND HIEROPHANT, author of DRACULA and company manager of the Lyceum Theatre, outwits the magicians of the Golden Dawn pursuing Pamela for her magical abilities and tarot deck.
Be a protector when it counts most: Ahmed Pascal Kamal, this Egyptologist and muse in EMPEROR AND HIEROPHANT values keeping precious artifacts and people safe and accounted for.
Work well with others to make a plan come together: Florence Farr, leader of the London-based Golden Dawn and muse in HIGH PRIESTESS AND EMPRESS, knows how to put a search party or a theatrical production together.
Have more enemies than friends: Aleister Crowley, wickedest man in the world, thrives on enemies!
Arcana Oracle #3
The next installment in the thrilling Arcana Oracle series finds heroine Pamela Colman Smith kidnapped, imprisoned, and fighting to protect her tarot deck from Aleister Crowley once again.
On tour with the Lyceum Theatre in Manchester, Pamela Colman Smith is kidnapped by a mysterious force. In captivity, she begins a relationship with her mute keeper, a strange creature at the beck and call of her nemesis, Aleister Crowley. Experiencing visions and visitations from other ethereal beings, Pamela works to escape her prison before Aleister harms another one of her muses over the ownership of her magical tarot deck.
Meanwhile, her guardian and mentor, Bram Stoker, tries to find her as he tours with the stars of the Lyceum Theatre, Pamela’s muses for the Magician and Empress cards. Alerted to Pamela’s plight, Ahmed Kamal, Pamela’s Egyptologist friend, joins Bram to come to her aid. Plotting against the mysterious forces who abducted her, Pamela must outwit and out magic Aleister, as he tries to destroy her muses and tarot deck. Learning the lessons of her Emperor and Hierophant, she must free herself and command the power manifesting from her tarot deck.
Fantasy Historical | Fantasy Magical Realism [SparkPress, On Sale: May 6, 2025, Paperback / e-Book , ISBN: 9781684633029 / eISBN: 9781684633036]
Susan Wands is a writer, tarot reader, and actor. A co-chair with the NYC Chapter of the Historical Novel Society, she helps produce monthly online book launches and author panels. In London, she has lectured at Watkins Books for their Recorded Authors series, and at Atlantis Books, also traveling to present at the Occulture Berlin Festival. Ms. Wands' writings have appeared in Art in Fiction, Kindred Spirits magazine, and The Irving Society journal, FIRST KNIGHT. Some of her podcast interviews include: Biddy Tarot, Imaginary Worlds, Bad Ass Bitches Tarot, and the Spirited Tarot YouTube channel. Her first book in a series, Magician and Fool, Book One, Arcana Oracle Series will be out in 2021, is based on Pamela Colman Smith, creator of the best-selling tarot, the Waite Smith deck. High Priestess and Empress, and Emperor and Hierophant, the next two books in the series, are in final edits.
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