Twelve-year-old Jack Morrow is used to life being complicated. His mother died five years ago & his father is now headed for prison. But then Jack discovers he's a Yard Boy
- someone with the ability to travel through Sorrowlines the channels that connect every gravestone with the date of the person's death
- & he is quickly pulled into an adventure beyond anything he could have possibly imagined. Finding himself in 1940s war-torn London with his then
- teenage grandfather Davey Jack soon realises that his arrival in the past has not gone unnoticed. The evil forces of a secret world are determined to find him
- & to find out all he knows. As Jack struggles to survive he comes ever closer to unlocking the dark secret at the heart of his family & to
- just maybe
- changing his own destiny...