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Auriel Rising

The acclaimed author of The Music of the Spheres works literary alchemy in this latest novel set in 1609 London, where the quest to turn lead into gold drives men and women to acts of daring, deception, and even murder.

Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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