Bodies keep appearing on the streets of London - each one mutilated before death, inscribed with a quotation by the long-dead heretic Giordano Bruno. Meanwhile, a young man is found dead in a warehouse, his right hand missing. He's the pretender to a vacant throne. Enter a fanatical-eyed giant on a quest for a Bruno manuscript, a bookseller who finds things, and Contractor Jaared Sen - sight restored - and the trail soon leads to the source of the quotes and the murders. A house. A brooding, malevolent house that's guarding its secrets and waiting... cruelly...