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A secret society, a suspicious death, an elite New England graduate school,

and a professor and student who come together to study an illicit form of magic

and wind up in a dangerous romance.

The Arcane Arts by SD Coverley,

the electrifying debut novel that is leaving readers' breathless,

available at bookstores everywhere.

Ian Fleming, the British author who created James Bond, wrote 14 books starring his dashing spy hero.

Fleming wrote all the Bond books in Jamaica at a home built on a cliff overlooking a private beach.

He called it GoldenEye.

Fleming loved birds, and GoldenEye was a birder's paradise.

Per Fleming's instructions, none of the windows at GoldenEye had glass, so that native Jama Jamaican birds like the Red-Billed streamer tail could flitter right into his bedroom.

In February 1964, a film crew from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation flew down to Jamaica to interview Fleming,

one of the world's most successful

living authors. At 55 years old, Fleming had already published 10 best-selling James Bond

novels. Two Bond books had also been made into blockbuster Hollywood movies starring Sean Connery as

007.

I admire your luck, Mr. Bond.

James Bond.

A third Bond film, Goldfinger, was coming out later that year. A journalist by trade, Fleming wrote

the James Bond books while on leave from his day job at the Sunday Times in London. He spent

every winter at Golden Eye, his tropical refuge. From January through March, Fleming sat each morning at his

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