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Also by Karen Essex
S
TEALING
A
THENA
L
EONARDO’S
S
WANS
K
LEOPATRA
P
HARAOH
For Olivia Fox, brave and bold.
Look for the magic
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Contents
Cover
Other Books by this Author
Title Page
Dedication
Prologue
Part One - London
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Part Two - Whitby, on the Yorkshire Coast
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Part Three - Graz, in the Duchy of Styria
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Part Four - Exeter and London
Chapter Ten
Part Five - Lindenwood Asylum, Purfleet
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Part Six - London and at Sea
Chapter Fourteen
Part Seven - Ireland
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Part Eight - London
Chapter Seventeen
Epilogue
Author’s Notes
Acknowledgments
Copyright
You must become who you are.
F
RIEDRICH
N
IETZSCHE
Prologue
E

veryone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived.
Unlike most people whose lives remain private, my story has been written by another, sold for money, and offered to the public for entertainment. The author of the fiction claims to be above reproach because his records are “exactly contemporary.” But these “records” are falsified documents, based on the lies of a cabal of murderers desperate to conceal their dark deeds.
The true story remains a secret—my secret—and with good reason. Reader, you are about to enter a world that exists simultaneous with your own. But be warned: in its realm, there are no rules, and there is certainly no neat formula to become—or to destroy—one who has risen above the human condition. That is wishful thinking. Despite what you have read in commercial fiction, in the supernatural world, science and religion are both ineffectual, and garlic, crosses, and holy water—no matter how many times it has been blessed and by whom—are equally useless and benign. The truth is deeper, darker, and stranger than you imagine. As Lord Byron wrote, “for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction: if it could be told, how much would novels gain by the exchange!” In the forthcoming pages, we shall see what is gained when truth is told.
At some risk to myself from mortals and immortals alike, I will now reveal to you what happened in that strange and seminal year of 1890, when I shed the cocoon of ordinary life, bursting through the membrane of prosaic ea ............

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