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Love Strikes a Devil

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The beautiful young Charisa Templeton has always loved her father’s old friend, the Marquis of Mawdelyn, and as a child she roamed Mawdelyn Priory with his nephew, Vincent, whom she adored.

And her father, who is a rich man, has helped support The Priory through difficult times and Charisa is his only child.

Greatly saddened to hear that the charming Marquis has died, she is however glad that his heir, Vincent, will be coming home soon from his Army posting in India to claim his title and estate. 

But then Fate strikes another blow with the news that Vincent has been killed in India. Reluctantly Charisa and her father prepare to welcome the next in line to the Marquisate, the  half-French Gervais Mawde, who no one seems to know anything about.

But as soon as he arrives at The Priory they sense that something is wrong. Penniless, he immediately sets about selling off the family treasures and dismissing loyal servants, even the Vicar! 

Worse still he forces his attentions onto the shy and unworldly Charisa. But just as she begins to despair, her prayers are answered and Vincent appears, alive but in terrible danger. 

Someone is trying to kill him and now they realise who! None other than Gervais, who is not only a murderer but also a Devil worshipper and is planning to use innocent Charisa in a Satanic Black Mass. 

The burning question is, can love conquer the forces of darkness?

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Author’s NoteIn the second half of the nineteenth century in France there was a boom in the publishing of books on magic. Church authorities were worried by a vogue for the supernatural at a time when anticlericalism was widespread throughout the country. One consequence of this craze for the occult was that Paris acquired a sinister reputation as a centre for Black Magic. Many literary young men were talking about magic, but after a while something even more horrifying came into being, which was Satanism. One of the best-known literary personalities was Marquis Stanislas de Guaita, the poet, who became obsessed with magic after reading the books by Eliphas Levi and founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose Cross. Guaita eventually undermined his health and his reason with prolonged nightly vigils as he surrounded himself with old spell books, magic manuscripts and occult apparatus. Both he and a poet called Dubus took drugs. Dubus, as I describe in this book, had hallucinations and died half-mad in a Paris convenience after injecting himself with an overdose of morphine. Catholic hostility to Satanism became joined with their dislike of Freemasonry. In an encyclical by Pope Pius IX in 1873 it was stated that Freemasons were working on Satan’s behalf throughout the world. There is no doubt that the Belle Époque, as the period was called, was deeply affected and smeared by the rise of Black Magic. When the controversy over the scandal of the Dreyfus affair exploded in 1898, there were widespread fears that sinister attempts were being made in secret to destroy the social order of the nation and even its civilisation.

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