Pharaoh’s Dust to Shattered Glass. The Mummy Powder Affair, #0

London, 1784. A crate labeled "Egyptian Curiosity" lands on the docks, and Lord Ashworth aristocrat, gambler, and professional disappointment to his family-buys it on a dare. Inside is a dull grey powder that smells of cedar and rot. One drunken boast later, the city's elite are paying twenty guineas a pinch for clearer skin, sharper wits, and eternal youth. Salons become catwalks of powdered noses and powdered lies; midnight duels are fought over counterfeit vials; and a black-market syndicate tightens its silken noose around London.
When bodies begin to drop, Ashworth discovers the only thing more dangerous than selling a miracle is admitting it was always a hoax. To survive he must outwit dockside cutthroats, out-talk scientific skeptics, and out-dance scandal at a ball where every step is gossip in satin shoes. Lord Ashworth: The Mummy Powder Affair is the spark that ignites a four-book conspiracy. Swashbuckling intrigue, razor-sharp wit, and a city high on its own reflection welcome to the season's most addictive scandal.