Harry Fitzglen is assigned to report on the talented photographer Simone Anderson. The journalist is skeptical, but a meeting with the mysterious Simone poses a number of intriguing questions for Harry. What happened to Simone's twin sister, who disappeared several years ago? And what is the connection between them and the twins Viola and Sorrell Quinton, born on January 1, 1900? Harry's investigation leads him to a village on the Welsh border and to the ominous ruins of Mortmain Manor. Mortmain's story draws Harry into a web of mysteries from the past, each more surprising—and frightening—than the last...