Radiant

In Gilded Age New York, Perry Threadgill, a research librarian at New York Public Library, is pulled into a world of magic, murder, and intrigue when he is attacked by a two-hundred year old vampire. Previously untapped magic allows Perry to fend off his attacker, and leaves him wondering if everything he knows about the arcane is fact, not myth. Alain Paillart, vampire and member of the New York elite, finds himself inexorably drawn to Perry and the series of magical murders that surround him. Can they solve the murders before Perry is the next victim, and will Alain's secret dash all hope of a happy ending?

For fans of Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light or KJ Charles' The Magpie Lord, Words of Power offers queer romantic, magical escapism in an alternative New York.