Deze spannende serie volgt een ex-gedetineerde die terug de criminele onderwereld in wordt gezogen wanneer zijn familie wordt bedreigd. Met de opdracht om een mysterieus artefact te stelen, krijgt hij bovennatuurlijke krachten die hem ook verleiden met duistere macht. Hij moet meedogenloze vijanden en zijn eigen innerlijke demonen bestrijden naarmate de corrumperende invloed van het object groeit. Het is een actievolle mix van spanning, mysterie en morele complexiteit.
Psychology professor Alex Locke is an ex-convict, forced back into the criminal underworld when his daughter is threatened. After he agrees to steal a mysterious Obsidian Heart, Locke is pursued by unearthly assassins known as the ‘Wolves of London’. Soon he discovers the heart can enable him to travel through time, and while it bestows him with his own dark powers, it also corrupts...
Alex Locke is still searching for his missing young daughter. Transported through time to the dank streets of Victorian London, his only hope of finding her lies with the obsidian heart, the enigmatic object to which his fate seems inextricably bound. Desperately seeking the heart, Alex follows the trail of a gruesome murderer that will lead him through the opium dens of Limehouse into the dark and twisted world of the Society of Blood, and ever closer to unlocking the secret of the heart – and finding his daughter.
In the final volume of the thrilling dark fantasy trilogy, the Obsidian Heart, Alex Locke is still searching for his missing daughter. He is transported far into the future and then back into the past and the horrors of the First World War trenches, as gradually he pieces together the strange truth about the obsidian heart and his lost daughter.