I'm John Taylor. I was born in the Nightside, that square mile in the
hidden center of London where it is always the hour of the wolf, where
gods and monsters walk side by side and where every dark question ever
asked can be answered--for a price.
I left for a while, but I did come back, to make my living doing what I
do better than anyone else: finding things--lost or stolen, real or
imaginary.
Recently, I found the most dangerous thing of all: the true identity of
my long-gone mother. Turns out she's a being who's been around since
before the dawn of history. Then, she created the Nightside--and now,
for her own warped reasons, she intends to destroy it.
To stop her before she even gets started, I've got to do some hard
traveling--back in Time, through endless eons, into the very
distant--and probably deadly--past...