A spellbinding thriller from the bestselling author of The Einstein Prophecy .
A chilling curse is transported from 1880s London to present-day California, awakening a long-dormant fiend.
While on routine patrol in the tinder-dry Topanga Canyon, environmental scientist Rafael Salazar expects to find animal poachers, not a dilapidated antique steamer trunk.
Inside the peculiar case, he discovers a journal, written by the renowned Robert Louis Stevenson, which divulges ominous particulars about his creation of The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde .
It also promises to reveal a terrible secret the identity of Jack the Ripper.
Unfortunately, the journal whose macabre tale unfolds in an alternating narrative with Rafe s isn t the only relic in the trunk, and Rafe isn t the only one to purloin a souvenir.
A mysterious flask containing the last drops of the grisly potion that inspired Jekyll and Hyde and spawned London s most infamous killer has gone missing.
And it has definitely fallen into the wrong hands.