An Unnatural Vice

An Unnatural Vice (2017) KJ Charles (Sins of the Cities)

Set in London in 1873

He looked like the sin of angels, like the sweetest fruit at the goblin market, and Nathaniel despised everything about him.

Justin stayed upstairs until he heard the door shut. Some people would call it flagrant physical cowardice to leave a twelve-year-old girl to deal with a large enraged man, and those people would be absolutely right, but Justin would have bet the house that Nathaniel Roy would never be angry enough to strike a child.

“Someone,” Sukey remarked airily, “someone once told me that the two things a medium’s got to do is, always be the one in charge, and never let ’em know it. Pity you don’t listen when you talk.”

Breakfast had to be toast because that smelled homely but not ludicrously domestic. Like his own master, he’d placed a strict household ban on any form of bacon, smoked fish, or boiled cabbage as entirely unspiritual odours.

Nathaniel found competence intensely attractive, and Lazarus was very, very good at what he did.

Publisher: Loveswept

Rating: 8/10

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