{"product_id":"the-crimson-inkwell-kenneth-a-baldwin-9781095674741","title":"The Crimson Inkwell: A Gaslamp Trinkets Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagic exists where we cannot see.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt lives in unexplained phenomena, in attraction to strangers, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ein a pen and crimson inkwell, from a trunk, in a tent, at a fair, in the fog.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eI didn't believe in magic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore he died, my father taught me the world was solid. Reporting was more like science, anyway. Hard facts. Logical inferences. Then again, I wasn't exactly an award-winning reporter so what did I know about it? But, when Detective Edward Thomas told me he had seen a phantom, something woke up inside of me. I could have tried to dismiss it as a trick of the lamplight, but how else could I explain the body on the cobblestones?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, I simply believed him, and not just because he was arrestingly handsome. I was engaged after all to a sensible, though older man--the same man who published my articles in fact. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo. I believed him because somewhere, deep down, I knew magic was real. What's worse, I knew it was a part of me. The detective's ghost story had just woken me up. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs soon as I accepted this truth, everything changed. My writing career, my family, my domestic prospects, and my freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat woman, pray tell, can fit three men and a writing career in her life and still keep her sanity?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there I landed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eByron was my fiance\u003c\/strong\u003e. He was sensible. He could provide a modest life of means for my sister and me. He could also continue to publish my little articles in his weekly magazine. He adored me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward was my detective\u003c\/strong\u003e, so good and true, straight as an arrow and noble as a knight. He inspired me to be something more. But, I could never live up to such a high standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBram was a mystery\u003c\/strong\u003e. Who could say where his life had taken him before he met me or what adventures he had endured. Everything he did was curious. I was drawn to him in ways I didn't understand. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould I escape this journey with my engagement intact? Which course would lead me down a road to the woman my father always believed I should be?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd why did I feel so angry all the time? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy fingers still have that enchanted twitch even as I peck these words out on an old typewriter. Before another episode comes, let me tell you what happened that fateful autumn in Dawnhurst-on-Severn. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eKenneth A. Baldwin bursts into the Gaslamp Fantasy scene with his debut novel.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Crimson Inkwell is a story about journalist Luella Winthrop. In her journey to become Dawnhurst-on-Severn's most acclaimed writer, she discovers that her city houses dark, magical secrets too uncomfortable to believe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an enigmatic carnival worker offers her a pen that can turn fiction to fact, she quickly learns that tampering with the unknown can be intoxicating, lucrative, and dangerous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet your copy today!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth A. 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