In Cate West: The Velvet Keys – the sequel to Cate West: The Vanishing Files – police are once again baffled by a strange series of murders that see Cate West, celebrated novelist and insightful visionary travel to faraway Damasca. Only this time, the victims’ bodies seem strangely ghostly, nor do they bear any marks of foul play!
When Cate discovers a mysterious book that holds clues to the mysterious murders, she reads about a curse called “The Keeper’s Mark” which causes its victims to suffer from a physical state of neither living nor dead. The only way to unlock the victim’s soul is for Cate to forge a Velvet Key by fusing the alchemical properties of random objects.
