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Sixteen-year-old Finley, a lady's maid in 1897 England, is forced to leave yet another job when the dark "thing" inside her knocks out the brutal son of her employer, and she is taken in by Griffin King, the orphaned Duke of Greythorne, who sees the magical darkness inside Finley and enlists her to join his little group of misfits in a quest to bring down the mastermind behind a rash of crimes committed by automatons.

In the summer of 1986, Nick Hayes--a prodigy, boy-genius, cancer survivor, and even a time travel dabbler, and student at Cambridge University--has begun working with the renowned mathematician Professor Halligan.

In January of 1986, Nick Hayes, a fifteen-year-old genius, discovers he has what is probably a terminal illness.