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The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

by K.J. Charles

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy·spoiler·The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

Why Read This?

A ghost-hunter and his journalist lover chronicle twenty years of supernatural cases and secret devotion in Victorian England — epistolary, eerie, and achingly romantic.

Synopsis

A story too secret, too terrifying—and too shockingly intimate—for Victorian eyes. A note to the Editor Dear Henry, I have been Simon Feximal’s companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years now, and during that time my Casebooks of Feximal the Ghost-Hunter have spread the reputation of this most accomplished of ghost-hunters far and wide. You have asked me often for the tale of our first meeting, and how my association with Feximal came about. I have always declined, because it is a story too private to be truthfully recounted, and a memory too precious to be falsified. But none knows better than I that stories must be told. So here is it, Henry, a full and accurate account of how I met Simon Feximal, which I shall leave with my solicitor to pass to you after my death. I dare say it may not be quite what you expect. Robert Caldwell September 1914 "The Caldwell Ghost" and “Butterflies” are previously published short stories. The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal continues and completes Robert Caldwell and Simon Feximal’s story. Contains a foul-tempered Victorian ghost-hunter, a journalist who’s too curious for his own good, villainy, horror, butterflies, unusual body modifications, and a lot of tampering with the occult.

At a Glance

4.25 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy
Endingspoiler
PairingM/M
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

secret relationshipforbidden loveslow burn

Mood

atmosphericmysteriousromanticbittersweetdark

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.25 ★

Page Count

224 pages

Published

2015

Primary Genre

Paranormal Romance

Pairing

M/M

POV

Epistolary / Mixed Media

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Unabridged

Narrator

Gary Furlong

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

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Characters

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Spice Details 🌶️

restrained then passionate, consent-forward sign in to unlock

deathviolenceoccult horrorhomophobia (period-typical)war references

World & Setting

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