In this fast-paced adventure of the mind and heart, Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Jordan Haldane, a roguish Victorian imperialist, is forced to go up against two powerful dark brotherhoods when he inadvertently interrupts their nefarious schemes for world domination. Haldane stumbles into a startling web of ancient conspiracy and forbidden cosmic romance, when he goes to Italy to broker a shady mining contract between two rival aristocratic families. His introduction to the uncannily familiar Sophia D'Amici sparks a mind-bending transformation within him, and sets him against the villainous...