Abaton… A mysterious vanished city where the souls of great, strange ones are kept in a library… An old legend will remind itself when, in search of kidnapped children, Jacob, Emma, and the faithful Eddison—having confused the trail of their pursuers in modern London—set off for Victorian England. In their perilous journey through the slums of the Devil’s Acre—where it’s very easy to hide stolen goods— they are accompanied by the grim ferryman Charon, tempted by the prospect of career advancement, and the emptiness that Jacob has tamed. But here, at the very lair of the creatures, someone has been waiting for them for years—someone who believes the librarian will return…