The Alchemist in the Attic

San Francisco 1899. As the city prepares to welcome the new century, a twisted killer enacts his final, grisly legacy. Theodore Atwood is a disgraced reporter desperate to find a story that can save his career. No one knows San Francisco's seedy underbelly better, but the deeper he digs the more grotesque and bizarre the case becomes. Haunted by dreams and phantoms, Atwood follows the killer's trail from the den of thieves and bodysnatchers to a secret society of spiritualists and occultists. Meanwhile, hidden in the shadows the alchemist readies for his enemies. Disgraced and dying, he will sacrifice countless lives to complete his terrible work. As the city descends into a fevered nightmare around him, Atwood is caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. He will have to fight to the brink of madness and beyond in order to survive--for he has entered a world of dark science and alchemy and there is no turning back.