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They wanted a son to fill the silence left by grief. What they brought home was something far older than childhood. When Rafe and Julia Volmer return from Mumbai with their five-year-old son's ashes, the void threatens to consume them. Six weeks later, they stand in a Portuguese orphanage, desperate for redemption, and find Lucien. Eight years old. Perfectly still. Perfectly quiet. The nuns say he was abandoned at a monastery. No birth certificate. No family history. No explanation for why other children refuse to look at him. The adoption is too fast. The paperwork has too many gaps.

Au début des années 1900, la France est en proie à d'étranges phénomènes. A Paris, des momies disparaissent des musées, des médiums succombent à des morts mystérieuses, et les rumeurs les plus folles courent les cercles occultes.

Grégoire Morvan, graue Eminenz des französischen Innenministeriums, ist Familientyrann und skrupelloser Geschäftsmann. Und er hütet dunkle Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit im Kongo, wo er in den Siebzigerjahren einen berüchtigten Killer dingfest gemacht hat. Als sein Sohn Erwan, ein Pariser Starpolizist, in Afrika nach Verbindungen zu einer aktuellen Mordserie sucht, ahnt dieser nicht, dass er längst erwartet wird. Von jemandem, der seit langem in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Und nie aufgehört hat, auf Rache zu sinnen.

Literary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed and disoriented, Slader exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will's downfall, and make a fortune along the way—armed with a devastating secret about Will's past. Slader quickly draws in Will's daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

In a small town in Arkansas there sits an old house. It's dirty and dilapidated. There hasn't been a human occupant in several years. The man who built it died under strange circumstances. And over the years even more have died or disappeared in or around it. Why hasn't it been torn down? Or how has it escaped being targeted by developers? Good questions but the answer isn't a simple one. For the house served as more than just a dwelling for a person. It serves as a nexus between worlds. And the home of a being of dark origins. It is a house, a courtroom and an execution grounds.