How far will you go to change a failing system?Welcome to the era of a beautiful regime: Gregor Lange is the man at the top, manipulating the world under the guise of peaceful prosperity. His one weakness — he cannot control his own daughter, Kay. She runs away from home and is abducted by Alex — anarchist, alleged cop killer, and public enemy number one. He tells her outlandish stories of conspiracies and imminent climate disaster, and warns her that western society will collapse if she doesn't help bring down her own father.But Kay is not the gullible girl Alex believes her to be. In the Lange family, ruthlessness is a virtue...

On December 10, 1880, Coroner Sévère makes a gruesome discovery: Nine newborns, buried in flowerpots, and hidden in plain sight in Whitechapel. A mortician receives the bodies and vanishes. Clues for the two seemingly unconnected cases are scarce.When Police and Coroner learn that the missing mortician might have spent his last moments at the bosom of the infamous prostitute Miss Mary, a series of events is nudged into motion. Lies are unearthed, rumours spread. Yet, the killer remains a faceless phantom.His secret seems buried forever.Until the night Sévère requests Miss Mary's services...Warning: Post-mortems and prostitution are shown un-prettified.

Coroner Sévère has it all: a beautiful young wife, money, influence, and...secrets...Not only is a disease slowly crippling him, but his wife, Olivia, is also a former prostitute who used to serve the Chief Magistrate himself — a man with cruel appetites.When Sévère and Olivia begin to investigate the heinous crimes of Chief Magistrate Frost, more than the Coroner's career is at risk.Sévère might just end up at the gallows.