England, 1854 Returning from the Crimean War, Lawrence Pownall Beaumont is given a string bound bundle of cryptic letters by his dying father. They bear the family seal and have crossed land and sea to find him - they are written by his brother Nathaniel's hand. The mysterious letters lead Lawrence into a labyrinth of supernatural and occult worlds, scandals and betrayals to arouse violent passions, and a journey far from home to explore lands of cultures past and present. A journey to a world as wild as the one he feels within. To a world beyond our knowing.