“Where does he get those wonderful toys?”
—The Joker, Batman (1989)
Isaac Vainio is a librarian, but not like any you’ve ever met. He’s secretly a libriomancer, a magician capable of working amazing feats through the power of the written word. In short, he can reach into a book and pull out anything he needs. Within reason. There are rules for this sort of thing, after all, as established by the Porters, the secret society founded by Johannes Gutenberg centuries ago. (Yes, that Gutenberg, he of the printing press. Who knew he was actually a sorcerer?)
Because of a few mistakes, Isaac’s been retired from the field, now working to catalogue books, recording the useful and dangerous ones for future consideration or protective binding. (Do you really want people accidentally bringing through the Kellis-Amberlee virus from the Mira Grant books? I thought as much.) It’s a quiet life, if somewhat unfulfilling after the excitement of field ops, but that monotony is disrupted when Isaac’s attacked by vampires. Yeah, it’s going to be one of those days….
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