One part literary, one part culinary, three parts magic, THE HERETIC ARCANUM is the most devilish meal you'll ever read. Cerise is dead. So she explains to in a message to an old lover. She tells of a chance encounter with a strange chef and the world's most inappropriate proposal, of an ancient arcane blade and a secret underground of night markets and ritual sex, and of her final orgiastic demise. But even in death, her story isn't over, and Cerise makes a final plea for love. "The Red Dagger" is a short occult mystery about the rapture of lust and is the second course of The Heretic Arcanum. "The writing is crisp." -amazon reviewer "A delightful world of occult, wizardry, and gastronomy." -amazon reviewer