📙 ‘The empire stretches across the world map, pink ~ like the blotcheson a drunkards face.’A dark epic fantasy set in a broken world of plots, high treason, intrigue,murder, war, and witchcraft.War rages across the Great Empire as Templar's, Witches, Inquisitors, Wizards, Kings, and Murderers~ clash and plot intrigues.A young Sir Thomas Devereux spies for the empire under the guiseof being one of the great literary minds of the age but he is is havingtrouble finishing his latest novel. His mother bullies him, his father hasdisinherited him, and his lover is a known witch and freethinking woman.The cultural laws are introduced, the inquisition is in full swing, and thesadistic Witch-Finder General persecutes all who fall within his grasp. And so begins the hunt for a lost treasure, the fight for liberty, and the struggle for equality.Alchemy Series ~ Book 1