Young Jane Silverlake lives with her father in a crumbling family estate
on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secret -- an unexplainable
gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objects -- and this
talent isolates her from the outside world. Her greatest joy is
wandering the wild heath with her neighbors, Madeline and Nathan. But as
the friends come of age, their idyll is shattered by the feelings both
girls develop for Nathan, and by Nathan's interest in a cult led by
Ariston Day, a charismatic mystic popular with London's elite. Day
encourages his followers to explore dream manipulation with the goal of
discovering a strange hidden world, a place he calls the Empyrean. A
year later, Nathan has vanished, and the famed Inspector Vidocq arrives
in London to untangle the events that led up to Nathan's disappearance.
As a sinister truth emerges, Jane realizes she must discover the origins
of her talent, and use it to find Nathan herself, before it's too late.