Of Gold and Shadows

by Michelle Griep · 2024

In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton lives a double life. By day she fights the gender bias of academia, striving to be a respected Egyptologist; by night she becomes the Shadow Broker, rescuing priceless artifacts from the black market. When Oxford’s charismatic bachelor Edmund Price returns from India to launch a political career, he hires an Egyptologist to appraise a mysterious new collection. Expecting a senior scholar, he instead meets Ami, the determined daughter of a professor, and is drawn into her world of intrigue. Together they uncover a golden griffin said to carry the ancient curse of Amentuk, forcing them to question whether a supernatural doom or a human conspiracy lurks in the shadows. Amidst romance, danger, and the clash of scholarly ambition with secret‑saving missions, Ami and Edmund must decide if love can survive the darkness that surrounds them.