Book one of a new prose novel series The first in a series of novellas set in the 1920s telling the story of widowed English aristocrat Eleanora Rosewood her Russian valet Sacha Valentin & their quest to take down the covert evil organization known as Dominion The globetrotting adventure begins when Lady Rosewood travels to Shanghai on the trail of a doomsday machine of her late husband&s design Faced with terrible danger she enlists the aid of a troubled Russian sailor