It is 1894 & the news of a Transylvanian nobleman's death at the hands of a certain Professor Van Helsing is the talk of London Unsatisfied at the acquittal of the professor Mycroft Holmes asks Sherlock to investigate what truly led to the deaths of Lucy Westenra & the mysterious aristocrat The newspapers are full of inconsistencies & wild supernatural theories & as Holmes digs deeper he suspects that those hailed as heroes are not what they seem The clues point to an innocent man framed & murdered for crimes he did not commit & Holmes & Watson find themselves targeted at every turn as what began as a quest to clear one man's name reveals a conspiracy that draws them to the mountains of Transylvania & the infamous Castle Dracula