Sapphyria's Book Promotions Presents: The Demons of Montmartre by Laurence Raphael Brothers; #BookTour, #NowAvailable, #OutNow, #TBR, #Live

Mirror World Publishing and Sapphyria's Book Promotions present the 1-week virtual book tour for The Demons of Montmartre by Laurence Raphael Brothers, book four in the Nora Simeon Investigations series.

About the Book:

Private Investigator Nora Simeon and her partner Eyre work for the Commission, the secret organization that regulates the summoning of demons in the financial industry. It’s the Commission’s job to suppress all public knowledge of sorcery. So when a mysterious letter from a person who calls themselves l’Invocateur threatens to expose the secret to the world, it’s Nora’s job to track him down.

In search of L’Invocateur, Nora and Eyre are off to Paris, but before they go, Madame Villiers, Nora’s mother and one of the Commission leaders in New York, reveals that Nora’s father may be in danger.

Nora has never known her father, a man named Simeon who disappeared when she was an infant. Spurred by her mother’s warning, Nora hunts both her father and l’Invocateur in France. From the elegant halls of the Société Générale to the altar of the Sacré-Cœur, Nora and Eyre find the threads of their search coming together in The Demons of Montmartre.

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Excerpt:

We split up after that, as Martha had a social outing with some of her fellow flight-school students at a nearby restaurant. Eyre and I took the LIRR back to Manhattan from the airfield, with the idea of doing some accounting and paying off our monthly business bills. Just as we got in the elevator on the way up to our dingy little 16th story office, my phone rang.

The ringtone was ominous chords from Night on Bald Mountain. Which meant my mother. We’d only spoken once in the last year, and that suited me just fine. Unfortunately, I had to take the call. If I tried to bounce her to voicemail, she’d probably do something magically horrible to my phone. Also, much as I hated to admit it, I owed her just now. If this was a chance to pay off the obligation, I’d be happy (well, happy in a teeth-clenching way) to take it.

“Mother?”

“Nora, dear. Would you be so kind as to meet me for dinner tonight? Le Bernardin, 8:00 PM.”

“I— what is this about?”

“I prefer to tell you in person,” she said. “It’s rather sensitive.”

“Okay.”

And just like that she hung up.

Back in our office, Eyre nodded as I recounted my mother’s side of the call.

“She said it was sensitive?” Eyre asked. “I think I’d better bow out, then.”

“Oh.” I was dismayed, because I’d been counting on his presence at the meal, not just for emotional support but because if he was there I imagined my mother would be less obnoxious than usual. For whatever reason: his gender, his...species, I guess, or just by dint of him not being me.

“Unless you think I should come?”

“No,” I said. “I’ll be fine.” And on consideration, maybe it would be best at that. Because if it really was something just for my ears, my mother was perfectly capable of telling Eyre he wasn’t wanted, which would mean I’d have to leave with him and never talk to her again. And pleasing as that was in prospect, it wouldn’t lead to me paying off that debt.

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Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published over 25 short stories in such magazines as Nature, the New Haven Review, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His WWI-era historical fantasy novel Twilight Patrol was just released by Alban Lake. For more of his stories, visit https://laurencebrothers.com/bibliography, or follow him on twitter: @lbrothers.

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Sapphyria's Book Promotions Presents: The Demons Of Chiyoda by Laurence Raphael Brothers; #BookTour, #NowAvailable, #OutNow, #TBR, #Live, #Giveaway

Nora Simeon hates demons.

Mirror World Publishing and Sapphyria's Book Promotions present the 1-week book tour for The Demons of Chiyoda (Nora Simeon Investigations #3) by Laurence Raphael Brothers.  

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Publisher: ‎ Mirror World Publishing 

1st edition (March 17, 2022)

Publication Date: ‎ March 17, 2022

ASIN: ‎ B09STVRWSL

Print Length: ‎ 199 pages

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About The Demons of Chiyoda:

Occult private eye, Nora Simeon, and Eyre, her uncannily pretty boyfriend, are on another case on behalf of the Commission, the secret organization that controls financial sorcery in the Americas. This time they're hunting down an investment-bank sorcerer who cracked when passed over for promotion and used a summoned demon to commit murder. Finding the murderer is easy, but he's already dead, assassinated in a locked room.

The case's ramifications quickly reach far beyond New York. From a murder scene in Queens, Nora and Eyre discover a tangled web of international corruption and sorcery linking crimes in Japan and the US. Traveling to Tokyo at the behest of the mysterious Onmyōdō Group, they run afoul of the even more deadly Ministry of Shadows. In the rural reaches of Fukushima province, Nora and Eyre discover a fateful secret that could shake the foundations of financial sorcery all around the world and come up against an old enemy whose malice poses a greater danger than any they've faced before.

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Read an Excerpt:

More people got on the train at Queensboro Plaza, so we sat in friendly silence except for the ninety-decibel roar of the train until we got off at Hudson Yards. After that it was just a short walk to 9th Avenue and 35th Street. Up sixteen floors in the dingy old elevator, past the frosted glass door with “Simeon Investigations” in gold leaf on the glass, and into my tiny, cramped office. And okay, I lied about there being nothing left to do, because I’d forgotten about the phone until we sat down at our desks.

First things first, though. I walked over to the flowerpot on my windowsill and my pet fire elemental, Spark, rushed out of it, a long streamer of fire like an incandescent snake spiraling up my arm, then changing form to buzz excitedly around my head like a demented moth who’d flown too close to a candle. Eyre held out his hand and the elemental darted over to him to alight on his wrist, now looking like a newly-hatched chick. Well, a newly-hatched chick who’d been drenched in gasoline and set afire, anyway. Spark was familiar enough with Eyre that they knew not to burn him. My assistant made those “cht-cht” noises you do when you’re trying to talk to a bird, but this seemed to freak Spark out and they fled back to my shoulder.

“Spark’s getting stronger,” Eyre said. “Not too long before you can consider embodying them. They’ll be able to do it themself eventually, but best if they have some help.”

“You think they’re...smart enough to be a person?”

“Not yet. Maybe not for ten or twenty years. But they’ll grow more self-willed before then, like a pet cat or a dog. And a willful fire elemental might be a bit of a chore to manage if they don’t have a body to conceal their flames. It will be good practice for them when they mature into intelligence, too.”

“Well, you’re the expert. I’ll keep it in mind.”

The problem was I’d need help if I wanted to bind the elemental’s spirit into a material body, and I wasn’t exactly on speaking terms with the only person I could think of who I could reasonably ask for assistance. It wasn’t an urgent matter, anyway. I opened a cabinet and found a big cone of sandalwood incense, offered it up for the elemental to ignite, and then placed it in the pot where they could play with it at their leisure. Then I took Carson’s phone out of my bag.

“Eyre, you want a try at this?”

He’d recently taken an online course for PIs about breaking into people’s phones but had yet to succeed with the new skill in real life.

“Sure.”

I handed it over and he started doing his thing with a laptop, a USB cable, and his hacking class powerpoints. Meanwhile I began to write up my report for the Commission, and then stopped because I remembered the photos I’d taken. I brought up the image of the characters on the wall, wrote them out myself on a pad without all the blood smears and drips and stuff, and then tried Google Lens on that.

天罰. Hm. Could be tiānfá, “curse” in Chinese, or tenbatsu, “divine punishment” in Japanese. Both seemed fitting, but neither were immediately meaningful.

“You getting anywhere with that phone?”

“Stupid thing has all the latest updates. Can’t get through the lockscreen.”

I brought up my own phone’s dialing screen. “Try 73724.”

“Why? Did you find it searching his bags or something?”

“Just do it,” I said, hoping hard. Once when I was sixteen I hoped really hard for something almost impossible to happen and it did, so since then I try it from time to time.

“I’m in.”

Twice in twelve years! How about that?

“Ha.” I got up and walked over to Eyre’s desk. He had the phone jacked into his laptop and was in the process of syncing everything over to a clean workspace he’d set up. “Cold reading. Not too bad for a hunch.”

“You’re kidding.” He studied the number for a moment, then shook his head. “Doesn’t mean anything to me. How’d you guess it?”

“Spelled out Perah on the dialpad. Guess Carson must have cared some about his demon too. Wasn’t just one way.”

Meet the Author:

Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published over 25 short stories in such magazines as Nature, the New Haven Review, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His WWI-era historical fantasy novel Twilight Patrol was just released by Alban Lake. For more of his stories, visit https://laurencebrothers.com/bibliography, or follow him on twitter: @lbrothers.

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Sapphyria's Book Promotions Presents: The Demons Of Chiyoda by Laurence Raphael Brothers; #CoverReveal, #ComingSoon, #TBR, #PreOrder

Nora Simeon hates demons.

Mirror World Publishing and Sapphyria's Book Promotions present the cover reveal for The Demons of Chiyoda (Nora Simeon Investigations #3) by Laurence Raphael Brothers.

Publication Date: ‎ March 17, 2022

Publisher: ‎ Mirror World Publishing; 1st edition 

(March 17, 2022)

ASIN: ‎ B09STVRWSL

Print Length: ‎ 199 pages

#novella #urbanfantasy #occult #paranormal 

#romance #demons #Tokyo #finance

About The Demons of Chiyoda:

Occult private eye, Nora Simeon, and Eyre, her uncannily pretty boyfriend, are on another case on behalf of the Commission, the secret organization that controls financial sorcery in the Americas. This time they're hunting down an investment-bank sorcerer who cracked when passed over for promotion and used a summoned demon to commit murder. Finding the murderer is easy, but he's already dead, assassinated in a locked room.

The case's ramifications quickly reach far beyond New York. From a murder scene in Queens, Nora and Eyre discover a tangled web of international corruption and sorcery linking crimes in Japan and the US. Traveling to Tokyo at the behest of the mysterious Onmyōdō Group, they run afoul of the even more deadly Ministry of Shadows. In the rural reaches of Fukushima province, Nora and Eyre discover a fateful secret that could shake the foundations of financial sorcery all around the world and come up against an old enemy whose malice poses a greater danger than any they've faced before.

Pre-Order Links:

Mirror World Publishing https://mirror-world-publishing.myshopify.com/search?q=chiyoda

Amazon https://amzn.to/3H7jHi6

Meet the Author:

Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published over 25 short stories in such magazines as Nature, the New Haven Review, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His WWI-era historical fantasy novel Twilight Patrol was just released by Alban Lake. For more of his stories, visit https://laurencebrothers.com/bibliography, or follow him on twitter: @lbrothers.

Visit the Publisher's Website:

https://www.mirrorworldpublishing.com/

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Sapphyria's Book Promotions Presents: The Demons Of The Square Mile by Laurence Raphael Brothers; #BookTour, #NowAvailable, #OutNow, #TBR, #Live, #Giveaway

Publisher: Mirror World Publishing 

(https://www.mirrorworldpublishing.com/)

Publish Date: March 17, 2021

Paperback: 114 pages

ISBN-10: 1987976770

ISBN-13: 978-1987976779

About The Demons of the Square Mile:

The real story behind Brexit.

Occult Private Investigator, Nora Simeon, and her uncannily handsome partner Eyre - an elemental given human form - follow a trail of magic, murder, and conspiracy from the luxurious apartment towers of Manhattan's upper east side to the ancient depths of London's Inner Temple. Along the way they encounter powerful sorcerers, magisterial barristers, evil templars, and, of course, more demons gone rogue.

With their newly acquired ward, Martha - a rat-demon - in tow, they uncover a secret so profound it could both undermine the world's financial system and topple the British government.

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When I got back to my shabby little 9th Avenue office, no one was there. My partner, Eyre, was gone from his desk. It was just ten in the morning, but we were supposed to go out to dinner tonight, and then afterwards he'd be sleeping over at my place. I squeezed my eyes shut for a second, hoping he'd somehow be there when I opened them. But no. Ever since I'd met him, I'd worried he might just disappear when he'd had enough of me. Maybe today was the day.

His desk looked normal enough. Laptop, closed. A half-empty can of Diet Pepsi. An orchid spray in a vase because after six months working with me he was still charmed at the idea of being like Nero Wolfe and having an office on 35th Street. An upturned paperback: Max Gladstone's Full Fathom Five. I'd bought it for Eyre as a joke because of the title - he used to go by Ariel, long ago and the title was out of The Tempest - but I guess he must have liked it because he was almost done with the book. It looked like he'd stepped out, except Eyre's pistol was still clamped under the desk, and his phone was charging. He hated carrying the gun, and I often had to bully him into it, but he wouldn't have left without his phone, not even to go to the bathroom. Something was seriously wrong.

Just then, my own phone rang, playing the Peter Gunn theme ringtone that meant someone was calling my office number instead of my personal one.

"Simeon Investigations."

"We have your minion," said an inhuman voice. A demon's for sure, unless it had been synthesized. It sounded like shards of broken glass jangling in a paper bag, but I could understand it. What I couldn't understand was how anyone could kidnap Eyre without getting their asses handed to them. Gun or no gun.

"Who are you?"

More broken glass sounds, but no words. After a few seconds I realized it was laughter. At last the voice answered. "We would be foolish to divulge our true name. Call us Émigré."

"What do you want?"

"We have a job for you."

I felt a flash of red rage. My little pet fire elemental, Spark, flared up in sympathy from its urn on the windowsill, and I thought I might just burst into flame myself.

"You stupid infernal-plane motherfucker! I charge a hundred an hour. All you had to do was clear a check and I'd work for you. But now-"

"Now we have leverage, yes?"

"Let me speak to him."

"Certainly."

Brief silence, and then Eyre came on the line. His voice was weak. I wanted to reach through the phone and tear broken-glass-voice to pieces with my hands.

"Hey, Nora," he said. "I'm really sorry about this. They got hold of my sigil somehow. They know what I am."

"Eyre," I said, "listen to me. I'm coming for you. Don't fight them yourself." I was thinking, Not till I get there.

"No fear of that," he said. "It's - you'll have to see. They say they'll let me go if you work for them. But I don't think-"

Eyre's voice cut off and broken-glass-voice resumed.

"Nora Simeon is known to us as a hunter of demons. She was contracted to hunt the demon Barbatos. She fulfilled her contract and killed the mighty demon Azriel."

Actually, it was Eyre who had the final word against Azriel, but there was a lesson there I wanted this demon to learn.

"I'm a PI. An investigator. Barbatos was just a missing person job. But listen carefully. Azriel would have been in no danger from me, except she attacked Eyre. My partner, Eyre. I've got nothing against demons these days. Not unless they kidnap my friends. Do you understand me, Émigré?"

A pause. "Yes."

I knew even as I was saying it how stupid it was. But I couldn't help myself. I was too damn angry.

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Meet the Author:

Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published over 25 short stories in such magazines as Nature, the New Haven Review, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His WWI-era historical fantasy novel Twilight Patrol was just released by Alban Lake. For more of his stories, visit https://laurencebrothers.com/bibliography, or follow him on twitter: @lbrothers.

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Publisher: Mirror World Publishing

 (https://www.mirrorworldpublishing.com/)

Publish Date: March 17, 2021
Paperback: 114 pages
ISBN-10: 1987976770
ISBN-13: 978-1987976779

About The Demons of the Square Mile:

The real story behind Brexit

Occult Private Investigator, Nora Simeon, and her uncannily handsome partner Eyre - an elemental given human form - follow a trail of magic, murder, and conspiracy from the luxurious apartment towers of Manhattan's upper east side to the ancient depths of London's Inner Temple. Along the way they encounter powerful sorcerers, magisterial barristers, evil templars, and, of course, more demons gone rogue.

With their newly acquired ward, Martha - a rat-demon - in tow, they uncover a secret so profound it could both undermine the world's financial system and topple the British government.

Pre-Order:

Mirror World Publishing Paperback

Mirror World Publishing Ebook

Amazon Paperback

Amazon Ebook

Visit the Tour Hosts:

https://saphsbooks.blogspot.com/2021/02/cover-reveal-tour-hosts-demons-of.html

Meet the Author:

Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist. He has published over 25 short stories in such magazines as Nature, the New Haven Review, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His WWI-era historical fantasy novel Twilight Patrol was just released by Alban Lake. For more of his stories, visit https://laurencebrothers.com/bibliography, or follow him on twitter: @lbrothers.

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