The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

by Josiah Bancroft

Besides, you make everyone nervous.” “I don’t make you nervous.” “That’s because I’m too busy being smitten.”

And it is perfectly all right, my dear Iz, to be afraid of the dark. People who tell you not to be afraid of things are usually the first to get eaten by tigers. Fear helps us to prepare. I say, gather your supplies, arm yourself, and make the dark afraid of you.

“I’d say royal business is all the more reason not to leave the house looking like a wet possum and…” The doorman scanned Warren, who wore an unrequited smile. “And a corduroy couch.”

War, meanwhile, was arrayed in a maroon-vested pinstripe suit and a necktie that was as lurid as a tongue.