Sample V-11: The Gothic Resonance

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The Chateau de Valmont sat atop a jagged cliff in the Auvergne, a skeletal ruin of obsidian stone and weeping gargoyles that seemed to breathe with the rhythm of the storm. Julian, the last scion of a disgraced line of alchemists, lived in the shadow of the library, a place where the air tasted of sulfur and old parchment. For decades, the Valmonts had sought the "Speculum Animae"—the Mirror of...

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