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    Katherine: The Inexplicable Adventures of Miss Alice Lovelady, #3
    Katherine: The Inexplicable Adventures of Miss Alice Lovelady, #3
    Katherine: The Inexplicable Adventures of Miss Alice Lovelady, #3
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    Katherine: The Inexplicable Adventures of Miss Alice Lovelady, #3

    By Sadie Swift

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    Katherine, my lover, has disappeared. The only clue to her whereabouts is an empty envelope addressed to her at a town she's never mentioned.

    What is her connection with Mistress Velda's Emporium of the Arcane Arts, and the town of Southend-on-Sea? And why, before my search for her has even begun, does a stranger leave a note telling me to forget her?

    What danger will I find by following my heart?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSadie Swift
    Release dateMay 13, 2016
    ISBN9781533764041
    Katherine: The Inexplicable Adventures of Miss Alice Lovelady, #3

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      Katherine - Sadie Swift

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      The crowds of people passing by on the street ignored me as they headed to see the remains of the downed Russian airship. That was fine by me as I was dirty and smelly from somehow surviving the airship’s destruction and throwing up in the escape. But also because my thoughts were confused at what I’d just seen - Katherine, the lady I loved, had disappeared. The clothes I recognised as hers were now, somehow, being worn by a stranger.

      Gradually the lady wearing Katherine’s hat and dress melted away into the crowds. What was going on? Why wasn’t Katherine in her own clothes?

      Maybe the shock of killing two vampires and having a major hand in the Russian airship’s destruction made me stand and stare at the last place I saw the strange lady. Then something inside my mind gave a little kick, unfortunately too late to be able to follow the stranger into the crowd, so I headed to the haberdashers from where she’d exited a short while ago.

      Would I be able to gain entry and find an answer? There was but one way to find out.

      Quickly I hurried back up the street and tried the door. Locked. Shielding my eyes I tried to make out any movement behind the blinds, but saw nothing. That wouldn’t stop me though, so I hurried back to the alley I’d used to spy on the person I thought was Katherine and went through it to see if I could gain entry around the back.

      I entered chill shadow and shivered as if something had just walked over my grave. Speeding up I dodged the accumulated smelly rubbish and exited the alley. The street this side was much quieter, almost as if it was in a different place and time.

      Thin flower beds and window boxes containing bright flowers decorated the outside of neat little terraced houses. I hurried up the street to where the rear of the haberdashers was and had a surprise, so much so that I looked back to the alley to see if I’d miscalculated. No, I was correct - the rear of the haberdashers was Mistress Velda’s Emporium of the Arcane Arts.

      What was going on? Had Katherine been visiting the haberdashers or Mistress Velda?

      I approached the small mullioned windows and peered in. This shop also looked closed, but also possibly unused for quite a while if the skeleton hanging in the window was Mistress Velda, or one of her staff.

      I touched the front door handle and jumped at a cry of Miss Lovelady!

      The sound of steps came from behind me and I turned to see Sir Percival and a sooty and most dishevelled-looking Departmental Liaison following behind. For some reason I felt slightly better knowing that we hadn’t killed him by destroying the airship, but also they’d back me up if I needed to enter Mistress Velda’s arcane Emporium.

      Sir Percival came up close to me and whispered, Best do what you need to do quickly; the Liaison is still quite shellshocked and may not take in what you’re up to.

      I nodded my thanks to him and turned back to the handle. Similarly to the haberdasher’s, it was locked. Quickly I looked through the windows, peering past the skeletons of varying sizes, shrunken heads, books, and more candles than you could shake a chicken’s

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