title: The Mercury Retrograde Book
author:  Therese Francis 
description: ... a handbook for turning something astrologers generally consider a negative into something which anyone can treat as a positive. -- <i>American Astrology, Nov 2001</i><br /><br />... is a very welcome and highly informative reading for students of astrology and metaphysics. -- <i>Reviewer's Bookwatch, Oct 2000</i><br /><br />Therese Francis shows ordinary people how to survive and thrive during these uncertain times... -- <i>Horoscope, Dec 2001</i>
zlib_text: Black Mercury
  
  A novel of the Drifting Isle Chronicles
  
  by
  
  Charlotte E. English
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Charlotte E. English
  
  Cover art © 2013 by Elsa Kroese
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be
  re-sold.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Drifting Isle Chronicles
  
  In January 2012, four fantasy authors began an ambitious new project. These
  strangers, each with a unique writing style and genre focus, came together to
  create a new fictional world that would blend the mechanical wizardry of
  steampunk with the classic magic and mystery of epic fantasy.
  
  As the weeks passed, the authors created a sprawling city peopled with all
  manners of aristocrats, inventors, artists, scholars, travelers, and of
  course, sinister criminals. But strangest of all was the ancient island that
  they placed among the clouds above the skyscrapers.
  
  And then each author took a separate piece of this new world and wrote their
  own novel about it: a journey of discovery, a crime