In Darkside, "a secret borough of London filled with evil creatures," murder is an everyday occurrence. But the murder of Edwin Rafferty is different. "Of all the hundreds of corpses I've seen, only one body has ever looked the way this one did," a reporter tells Jonathan, a young man new to Darkside. "And that was James Arkel." James Arkel was a Ripper, one of Jack the Ripper's descendents, and thus in line for Darkside's throne. And Jonathan's mother had been investigating Arkel's murder when she disappeared. Can this new murder lead Jonathan to his mother before it leads the murderer to him?
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