Good intentions make bloody heroes.

Juniper is a witch, hidden amid the gas lamps of Victorian society, who knows the bloody shape of the future. Once, she fought to keep her village safe from vampires. Now, she is on the run with a terrible secret through the slums of Jack the Ripper's London.

Magic has a price, and she isn't prepared for it.

When she is imprisoned in a vampire's lair alongside an officer from Scotland Yard, she faces his interrogation about a murder that rocked the front page of newspapers around the globe. She knows that he sees her as a courtesan with dangerous social ambitions, but the truth would scandalize him more. It is a story of outcasts, warlocks, werewolves, finishing schools, dark prophecies, and supernatural threats that he won't believe.

He already suspects that she fell in love with a killer.

As the candles melt in the dungeon, she answers his questions and hopes that a clue will lead to their escape. They have until nightfall before their captors rise...

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This is a historical prequel series to the Red Witch Chronicles and features other crossover characters like the vampire Kristoff Novak, Perenelle Flamel the alchemist, Father Matthew, and more.

Warnings: A Time of Demons & Darkness is a dark urban fantasy with depictions of violence, swearing, sexual situations, toxic people/relationships, and mature themes. Think Trueblood meets Outlander in the Victorian Age.