A Study in Shadows

Max Sterling has battled ancient empires, rogue timewalkers, and secret societies. But nothing prepares him for Victorian London—where Jack the Ripper is still whispered about, and the boundary between fiction and fact begins to blur.

A woman's scream draws Max, Chloe, and Nick into a fog-choked alley just in time to see a knife flash and a shadowed killer vanish into the dark. Moments later, they discover the horrifying truth: someone is targeting Arthur Conan Doyle—and trying to erase Sherlock Holmes from history itself.

Whitechapel is boiling with fear, the newspapers are hungry for a new monster, and a killer who understands spectacle is leaving clues that feel less like evidence than a challenge. As the trio crosses paths with Doyle, they realize the danger is not rumor or superstition, but something deliberate, intelligent, and closing in fast.

Drawn into Doyle's inner circle, Max and his team find unlikely allies in the sharp-eyed Dr. Joseph Bell and a battle-worn inspector desperate to keep London from tearing itself apart. But every clue leads to a deeper mystery: who would risk everything to silence the man who created Sherlock Holmes—and why do the attacks seem designed to turn fiction into fate?

From fog-choked alleys to the footlights of the Lyceum Theatre, Max must navigate a city built on secrets and stories—while protecting history without becoming part of the legend he's fighting to preserve. Because if the assassin succeeds, it won't just be a life that vanishes.

It will be the world's greatest detective—wiped from history forever.