It was a dark night nearly nine years ago when Gordon McCurr first saw the young boy, Angus O’Connor, whose painful gaze revealed deep suffering. McCurr received a call about gunshots at the O’Connor home, a place he knew well from visiting the family. He remembered conversations with Fergus O’Connor about his missing father and felt the family's lingering sorrow. Upon arriving, McCurr found the lifeless body of Iris O’Connor and Angus, terrified and crying in the corner. The atmosphere was filled with grief, marked by the boy’s quiet sobs. As they waited to move Iris’s body, tension filled the air, and McCurr's thoughts focused on the boy left behind, uncertain and frightened. Danger lurked around the corner and the boy so alone was shrouded in mystery. Follow along the first in a trilogy of intrigue, danger, and turmoil as Scotland Yard detective Gordon McCurr races to protect Angus and solve the mystery surrounding him.