Blood of Atlantis

    (Jon Auerbach, 2024)

Magic is real. That’s a fact Beatrice Stallard has known for more than a decade. It is not the magic of the storybooks though. There are no wands, no spells, no incantations. Magic, or alchemy, as it is better known, is about harnessing the energy flowing within the Earth. Once, magic flowed across the world like a mighty river. Or sprung from the ground like an oil geyser. Or pick another natural resource metaphor, you get the idea. No longer. It’s been siphoned off, pilfered, used up, by those that came before. But it’s still out there. If you know where to look. Fortunately, Beatrice does. She’s done a lot of looking. And in the process, made some powerful enemies. But now she’s playing a different game. In her travels, trials, and tribulations, Beatrice has come across inklings and whispers that the myths of yore weren’t exactly myths. And the big one, the one she is setting her sights on, is Atlantis, the fabled lost city that sank beneath the waves so long ago, never to be heard from again. Or so the story goes. Together with her business partner/wizened bartender Svetlana and a couple of newbie Questers she picked up along the way, Beatrice will traverse New York City and beyond to discover the secrets of Atlantis.
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