Chronically adrift Rose isn't ready to meet Emile Belmont. Yet he offers everything she's dreamed of: wealth, stability, whirlwind romance. Rose believes their life together is perfect until the day Emile vanishes, leaving a trail of bizarre clues behind.

Easter exists in two worlds. Shattered by a childhood of wonder and violence, she slips between the real world and a place of countless doors. Passages only she can open, leading into phantom palaces and tiger-stalked jungles.

Anita is haunted by an age beyond our own. Daughter of criminal and con-man Victor Larkey, she's learned to survive on her own, all the while dreaming of a city a thousand years away. A vast, mechanical city she has seen before and has vowed to find again.

Together, they will cross our world and others to uncover a plot centuries in the making. A plan which only they can stop...