The Darkwood Mysteries (8): The Rat King

Emily Darkwood is already resisting Victorian society's expectations of her as a woman of the upper classes, when she receives a strange and life-changing inheritance in the wake of her missing parents. A stone of amber that draws her into mysteries, supernatural, cosmic, and criminal. Armed with this guide stone, her wits, revolver, sword-stick umbrella, and faithful servant-companion, the streetwise, scrappy, and young Jack Hobbs, she determines to challenge the mysteries and threats she encounters in her search to understand the origin and power of the stone and its connection to her parentsand their fates. Yet dark forces conspire against her, and her drive for answers and her fight against the darkness of the world risks fought for medical studies, her friends, familyand her life.

The Darkwood Mysteries are a series of short-stories, novellas, and novels that can largely be enjoyed as standalone tales of horror and adventure from any point, or together in order as part of a deeper mystery.

The Rat King is a short story in the series.

Board members of a charity suffer tragic ends. Where others see unfortunate coincidence, Darkwood suspects murder most strangedeath through the mischief of rats... Have rats turned upon us, or is someone or something behind the attacks? What is driving the rat king swarm to kill? With Darkwood's aunt made a member of the board, the stakes become personal...

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