Mary screamed when she looked into the mirror.
But not for long and not with pleasure.
She had aged sixty years!
A deadly scourge of humanity has unleashed himself upon the unsuspecting citizens of London, choosing women as his victims.
He and an old enemy of Sherlock Holmes have come to Victorian, London, which exists in one of many alternate universe worlds, seeking revenge. Soon, Harry Houdini will be facing one of them, his very soul at risk.
Harry Houdini's an extremely talented magician in the times of Good Queen Mary of Scots, in an alternate history, where authors and all their written characters exist at the same time.
A touch arrogant, a lady's man, Harry has everything going for him, fame, fortune, the pick of women, but his life has not gone the direction he had hoped for in his early teaching by his friend and mentor, Merlin the Magician and his now departed father.
He has dreamed of becoming the world's most powerful magician, like Merlin, but on bold adventures, righting wrongs and fighting evil.
None of that has happened as he dreamed it might.
Instead he is a stage magician of great fame, who performs very little real magic in public, and has buried his loss of dreams by flinging himself into in an endless stream of meaningless romances.
A chance meeting with Holmes is about to turn Harry's life upside down and launch him in an unexpected battle and direction.
Harry is about to be drawn into a terrible battle between Sherlock Holmes and two enemies of the man, Professor Moriarty and Dorian Gray. And worse yet, a more powerful and dangerous wizard skulks in the background, waiting to pounce of the loser of the battles...Fu Manchu, an evil Oriental wizard, who aims for nothing less than the domination of the world!
The fourth book in a huge series, Harry Houdini will take you into a world of intrigue, mystery, suspense, magic and terror as the magician faces finally realizing his greatest fantasy and dream...to become a true hero.
But heroism has its costs.
And the enemies of Holmes will become his as well.
Will Harry accept the challenge now before him or continue like the lost soul he was beginning to feel like?
A book of Victorian England in an alternate history and universe where magic and Steampunk science exist.
The excitement builds in the fourth book in the Young Sherlock Holmes Series.
