The Ritualist. Volume 2

From the creation of the world, the heavenly ether permeates everything, and people and non-humans weave charms from it—directing them for their own benefit and to the harm of others. The Master of the Universal Ethics Commission, Philip Oleander von Cheren, hunts black magicians among the scholarly class, but the farther he goes, the tighter the whirlpool of other people’s intrigues winds around him. Enemies are on his heels; the magical staff and a pair of pistols covered in spells no longer guarantee safety. And then there are his own skeletons in the cupboard—who knows, they may break out and start a real dance of death…