In the Victorian era, the roar of Watt’s steam engines resounded throughout the British Empire, where the sun never set.
Polite gentlemen were everywhere, and elegant ladies leisurely savored the sweetness of afternoon tea. It all seemed to speak of prosperity and harmony.
But outward splendor concealed chaos and death. The air in London reeked with filth, and rampant disease cast the city into shadow. It was hard to imagine that just beyond the gates of the nobility’s magnificent estates lay scenes straight out of hell.
A sudden appointment drags Benjamin, a young naval lieutenant, into a vast conspiracy. As one mystery leads to another, how will fate weave their paths together, and where will it lead him?
