Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a
name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet
this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Tri
nidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, a man of African descen
t, and where his fiancee Georgiana Sutton was raised.Mycroft's comfortable exist
ence is overturned when Douglas receives troubling reports from home. There are
rumors of mysterious disappearances, strange footprints in the sand, and spirits
enticing children to their deaths, their bodies found drained of blood.
