The Ruins of Gandarah Series

In a world where magic is returning after centuries of absence, Professor Adrienne Imlay has been able to balance her secret shamanic abilities with her academic career. But when she becomes entangled with Philidor Magnus, a charismatic inventor with a dark secret, she is drawn into a deadly plot involving demons, rival industrialists, and shadowy magical authorities. When rifts to other dimensions threaten to tear her city apart, she must confront her own abilities and the ethical quandaries they pose.   A special note for readers: this book contains a lot of different characters and a lot of worldbuilding. If you prefer your settings conventional and your story focused on a few heroes and villains, you probably won't enjoy this novel.

After centuries of absence, magic has returned, causing panic and controversy..   Adrienne Imlay hopes only to forget and get herself forgotten. But when unexpected fame draws her into the limelight, she has to face a string of unexpected events: the dreaded arrival of elections and politics into her lab, a series of thefts, the disappearance of another colleague, and finally, an unsanctioned research project going way beyond her worst nightmares. Assisted by unlikely allies and armed with little more than a railway timetable, she sets out to stop this scheme. But as the lines between magic and science blur, she discovers that both worlds operate by their own set of rules.   The most critical of all is: everything has a price.