Chapter Two: Arrival This wasn’t a purchase. It was an inheritance of problems. jkr 2.1 No transition. Auction Room. New York Her husband wasn’t known for having a sense of humor. The thought landed heavily on Katrina Kane as she stood staring at the archway, from which moments before Victor Kane and his assistant Harris had vanished right in front of her eyes. She stepped back; her eyes fixed on it at the end of the corr...

Prologue: The Mad King of Manhattan Francis Close Hall Institute for Psychiatric Medicine - New York. After twenty years as a homicide detective in the New York Police Department, Gabriel Devlin thought he had seen everything. In this case he was not so sure. The corridor outside the cell smelled faintly of disinfectant. “That’s him,” said the doctor. “The King himself.” Devlin looked through the peephole in the door and...

Part Three: Towering Problems 3.1 Four-Star StableWhen Harris awoke in the stables, he was startled to find himself lying on a stone floor, wrapped in his own coat. It had not all been a dream; after all, they had crossed through an archway into another land. He looked across the stable and saw that the pile of straw where Victor Kane had spent the night was empty. His employer was never a man for sleeping, judging by the...