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When Thomas Berrington finds the bones of a human hand in his room at Ludlow Castle, he knows he must confront whoever left them. But when Thomas tracks the man down, his throat has been cut, and Thomas believes the killer is an old adversary.

Les promises, ce sont ces grandes dames du Reich, belles et insouciantes, qui se retrouvent chaque après-midi à l'hôtel Adlon de Berlin, pour bavarder et boire du champagne, alors que l'Europe, à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est au bord d'imploser. Ce sont aussi les victimes d'un tueur mystérieux, qui les surprend sur les rives de la Spree ou près des lacs, les soumettant à d'horribles mutilations... Dans un Berlin incandescent, frémissant comme le cratère d'un volcan, trois êtres singuliers vont s'atteler à l'enquête.

Adelynn Spencer, a spirited member of the Edwardian London upper class, struggles under the conditions of her engagement to Detective Inspector Baze Ford. But during the gala announcing their betrothal, events take a fatal turn when Adelynn experiences a vivid dream of a man dying with a knife buried in his chest. To her alarm, Baze and his men later discover the man exactly as she witnessed. As Baze wrestles with the decision to harden his heart or take action to protect the woman who means everything to him, Adelynn ventures further into the clutches of magic and murder.