Release Date: May 6, 2025
About The Book:
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.
About The Author:
Susan Wands is a writer, tarot reader, and actor. A graduate from the University of Washington, she has acted professionally across the United States and on Broadway. Her adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was produced at the Cornish Institute in Seattle and she has written plays, screenplays, and skits and produce several indie films. She was a company member in Rumble in the Red Room, an off-Broadway troupe, for four years. As a co-chair with the NYC Chapter of the Historical Novel Society, she helps produce monthly online book launches and author panels. Wands’s writings have appeared in Art in Fiction, Kindred Spirits magazine, and The Irving Society journal First Knight. She lives in NYC with her husband, actor Robert Petkoff, and two cats, Flora and Flynn. https://susanwands.com/
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Book Blurbs:
Wands takes the reader on a magical spell-binding journey in this historical fantasy thriller about the creation of the Crowley tarot card deck. Wands writing is exquisite and riveting throughout. – Ellen Rachlin, author of Permeable Divide, Winner of the 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, and the upcoming Song From the Sands.
Books that mix tarot and dreamscapes have become more popular in our uncertain future, but Susan Wands deftly mixes Bram Stoker, Aleister Crowley, early theater and a heady mixture of castles, longing, astrophysical travel and London as a character in the story. It’s a book you won’t want to put down. You’ll want to jump on the train to the next stop, your own tarot cards in hand. — Kate Gale, Co-founder and Publisher, Red Hen Press
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