In a city stitched together by jazz, blood, and secrets, the old codes are starting to unravel.
 
Dr. Benjamin “Terror” Benton once saved lives in sterile, white-walled hospitals. Now, disgraced and stripped of his license, he rides with a traveling Negro circus—mending the broken in back-alley tents and backroom shacks, performing quiet miracles for the unseen and unwanted. But Chicago isn’t just another stop. It’s a convergence.
 
C. Auguste Dupin, the original mind behind every modern detective, has returned—reimagined as a recluse from Paris who solves impossibilities while most sleep. When a string of ritualistic murders begin leaving behind strange symbols, shattered compasses, and references to knights long thought to be legend, Dupin knows this isn’t criminal—it’s myth reborn.
 
The symbols all point to one name: Sir Morien.
 
Once a Moorish knight of the Round Table, now reborn as the leader of a secret occult brotherhood cloaked in myth, Morien walks between past and present like a curse with a conscience. His followers believe he’s the last living link to divine blood. His enemies believe he’s opening a gate that should never be opened.
 
As war brews between science, logic, and legacy, Dupin and Terror must work together to untangle a conspiracy buried beneath centuries of lies—and face a man who wields myth like a blade.
 
Some oaths die with kings. Others echo through the bloodline.