Deep in the forgotten corners of London, where cobblestones remember centuries of secrets, a boy discovers that the key to saving two worlds has been hanging around his neck his entire life. Paul Brescott never asked to be special. He never wanted to hear voices in ancient languages or see doorways that others walked past without noticing. But when his ordinary life shatters on his thirteenth birthday, he must choose between the comfortable lie of ignorance and the terrifying truth that he was born to stand between humanity and an darkness that has waited a thousand years to return.
