The first three of Miss Alice Lovelady’s Inexplicable Adventures! Contains Mr Tok, The Caspian Star, and Katherine.

The next three of Miss Alice Lovelady's Inexplicable adventures! Contains Opener of the Ways, Vengeance in Venice, and Snow Beast.

After the unfortunate destruction of a safe-house (and probably a village as well), high in the Snowdonia mountains, Sir Percival, Glenys, and I are in Rhyl, the Brighton of the North Wales coast. For the first time I can remember my bright pink hair is not a topic of conversation as Rhyl’s inhabitants, both male and female, are undergoing a fad of sporting brightly coloured hair of their own. But underneath the sensuous skies and romantic gaslight of the town strange things are happening – people are disappearing and reappearing in daguerreotype images with a horrified look upon their faces. Unfortunately this means my application to join the Rhyl Ladies Library – one of the many Associations within the town - is put on hold until I solve this most inexplicable mystery. With the help from the mysterious Esmerelda, and the delightful Penelope, I must survive strange and deadly places to discover the link between hair colour and the disappearances before the Men of the Cog arrive, or I shall never be allowed to join the Rhyl Ladies Library! I can only hope that the saying is true – what happens in Rhyl stays in Rhyl.

After arriving back in Britain from Venice Sir Percival and I are sent into hiding by the secret Government Department we work for. Rumours have reached them that our lives are in even more danger from the Men of the Cog after destroying their experimental cold-aether apparatus. The secret house we are sent to is located in a remote village in the midst of the Snowdonia mountains of North Wales. In this splendid isolation Sir Percival has been instructed to recreate from his memory the machinery we most recently destroyed. However, mysterious, violent deaths plague the village, for which we receive the blame as our arrival apparently woke the monster. But the reality is far more inexplicable than we’d ever imagined.

Working on a remote highland farm is all very well for rest and recuperation and weapon making (without even mentioning the cows wiping their noses upon me), but there comes a time when a girl just has to dance with other girls. At least that was my plan when Sir Percival and I visited Darkbridge Manor. What I hadn’t counted on was discovering an aetheric marvel, the most dangerous woman in the world (which fair put the kibosh on my evening’s entertainment I can tell you), and a Bronze-age puzzle that required solving or even more death and destruction would occur. Life would be so much better if I hadn’t found that dratted metal figure in the stream.

A seemingly accidental encounter in Victorian London threatens not just the Court of Crows-sanctioned assassination Callie and I are on, but also the love between us. Have my feelings for Callie merely been implanted in me by the Court so they could blackmail me into being their killer? How can I discover the truth when reality is whatever the Court decides?