Doctor D'Arco, Sorcerer of London
Kathryn Colvin
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· 54 ratings · 900 pages · Published: 15 Aug 2024

A Victorian Gothic Romance for all time.
In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever—or whatever—caused her Egyptologist husband’s uncanny demise.
Everything changes when a mysterious encounter at a fortuneteller shop leads Elizabeth to join the Esoteric Order of Magisophists, a secret society and college of magic. But with her new life comes new peril, and even the occultists of the Order dread the infamous Doctor D’Arco: a grim, brooding, demon-summoning professor of sorcery, his imposing presence intensified by his black cloak, steel mask, and the unsettling sensation of darkness that emanates from him like a deep shadow.
Now the sorcerer Doctor D’Arco seeks an apprentice to join him in banishing a ghastly rival—and Elizabeth proves to have precisely the talent he requires.
Inspired in part by vintage Gothic, Romantic, and Victorian literature and written in compelling, sensual prose, Doctor D’Arco, Sorcerer of London is a tale of mystery, adventure, supernatural thrills, eerie suspense… and most of all, of a young widow’s secret, longing love for the dark sorcery professor to whom she is apprenticed, her fear of him slowly smoldering into a dangerous desire.
Tagged as:
- magic 13
- historical 13
- victorian 13
- slow burn 13
- m-f romance 12
- teacher/coach hero 12
- forbidden love 11
- vengeance 11
- paranormal 10
- demons 10
- competent heroine 10
- mystery 9
- age gap 9
- height difference 9
- grumpy/cold hero 9
- possessive hero 8
- witches 6
- fantasy 6
- suspense 6
- urban fantasy 6
- bad boys 4
- fae 3
- alpha male 3
- gifted/super-heroine 3
- poor heroine 2
- take-charge heroine 2
- angst 2
- disabilities & scars 1
- pagan 1
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- content warnings
- graphic violence 3
- geography
- england 9
- british isles 4
- europe 3
- Format
- Audiobook
- first person pov 10