“Did you think it the most beautiful city in the world? The tales I’ve heard-” “You’ve been to Vienna before, then?” Michael’s drinking com-panion, Peter Riesenbeck, smiled at him from a face flushed with elation and alcohol, looking far too young to be the director of a theatrical troupe.
But Michael had chosen this tavern, and this moment, carefully-and the notorious Count Cagliostro himself, the greatest trickster of all time, had taught Michael the art of successful vocal control. It took a fine art to pitch his voice to wistful melancholy over the sound of three dozen carousing actors in Prague’s tiniest and most crowded tavern.
“Of course, I could never go back to Vienna,” Michael Steinhüller said. Hello! Today we have a special excerpt and giveaway for Stephanie Burgis’ Congress of Secrets, the stand-alone follow-up to her adult debut Masks and Shadows.
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