Blackthorne & Rose — K.G. McAbee

When Captain Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke returned from their quest for the source of the Nile, no one had any idea of the unstable Speke's nefarious plans. Only after the undead began stalking London did the Damocles Institute of Research and Exploration--DIRE--send their two best operatives to investigate. Jonathan Blackthorne--the Astounding Blackthorne, Magician Extraordinaire--and his fiancé Lady Rose Blakeney-Barrington, brilliant scientist and inventor, uncover the most dastardly plot imaginable. Can they and the other agents of DIRE save London before everyone becomes a shambling revenant?