Veritas is special. He's a visionary, a necromancer-on-the-rise with scientific principals. But his latest experiment is failing, and he'll need more help than his scuttling skull minion can provide. Perhaps the traveling tinker passing through town will prove useful — he can always use another pair of hands, after all …
Victoria Corva writes things and reads things and reads things out loud, and sometimes they get paid for that, which is nice because it means they can feed their cat.
They live in Wiltshire with their partner and their furry familiar and as many books as they could fit in their small flat.
They are anxious and autistic and doing just fine.