Teodor Merlin es un experimentado diplomático de las Naciones Unidas. Hace cinco años tuvo que hacer frente a lo inimaginable, la muerte de su hija en Oriente Medio. Joanna trabajaba para una ONG y ni las circunstancias de su muerte ni la eventual participación de las autoridades o de su propia organización se llegaron a esclarecer del todo.
En el presente, a través de algunos encuentros imprevistos y casi en contra de su propia voluntad, es arrastrado al descubrimiento de qué ocurrió exactamente hace cinco años, lo que se convierte en una misión devastadora para lograr la justicia donde no hay ninguna solución en el plano legal. Él, que toda su vida ha creído en las palabras para resolver conflictos, se encuentra ahora ante el dilema de decidir si debería tomarse la justicia por su mano, frente al presunto culpable y con un arma en la mano: ¿debería disparar o no?
The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.
That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.
Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….
Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.
With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.
But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.