Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, have stirred
the wrath of a murderous secret organization bent on
infiltrating the government. Now they are separated and on
the run, wanted by the police, and pursued across the
Continent by a ruthless enemy with limitless resources and
powerful connections.
Unstoppable together, Russell
and Holmes will have to survive this time apart, maintaining
contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes.
But has the couple made a fatal mistake by separating,
making themselves easier targets for the shadowy government
agents sent to silence them?
A hermit with a
mysterious past and a beautiful young female doctor with a
secret, a cruelly scarred flyer and an obsessed man of the
cloth: Everyone Russell and Holmes meet could either speed
their safe reunion or betray them to their enemies—in the
most complex, shocking, and deeply personal case of their
career.