The Chemickal Marriage

The Chemickal Marriage by Gordon Dahlquist. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670921638.

Miss Temple, young, wealthy and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiancé is dead - admittedly by her own hand - her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, still at large. It falls upon Miss Temples tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world. But Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang are alive - barely. Exhausted and outnumbered, their bodies corrupted by a poisonous blue glass, Miss Temple, Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang must pursue their enemies through city slums and dazzling palaces as they fight to prevent the cabals unholy marriage between man and science. In the final instalment of Dahlquists epic trilogy, an assassin, an heiress and a surgeon battle against the worlds most frightening evil...in an adventure that will decide everything.