The Left-Handed Booksellers of London

"In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn't get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller, part of an extended clan of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops. Susan's search for her father strangely overlaps Merlin's quest to learn how his mother died. Who or what was her father? Susan and Merlin must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New."--Back cover