The Color of Death

The Color of DeathBy: Bruce Alexander Suspicion and fear are running high in London, as a gang of expert criminals terrorizes the town in a spree of robbery and murder. And in a time when slavery is still practiced in the colonies, there is but one peculiar clue to the identity of this group: The robbers are all black men. The blind judge Sir John Fielding is on the case to ensure that the guilty are punished and that no hasty conclusions are made. But when Sir John

and Alsanea thus speaks for countless women everywhere

in this emotionally evocative novel by New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell

but is that everything she will need for her big first day

Matters swiftly turn from irksome to downright deadly when the partygoers stumble upon a decomposing body in the castleʼs crypt

maybe she’s the only potion-maker in the village of Sienna Dunes

a familiar world layered with imaginary civilizations

with flashbacks to the Civil War

and when she’s upset

Elodie was quickly drawn into their orbit

and a half century later

Eve’s investigation turns to the provocative world of virtual reality games—where the same techniques used to create joy and desire can also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction

And no sooner do Jackson and his friend Reuben take the rose cutting home than Reuben’s gloom-and-doom talk of curses seems real