Matthew Parker

With the inception of ANI and the Educational A.I. program, the world is slowly becoming a better place for everyone. The Sleeping Death plague has been halted and life-changing leaps in technological development occur on an almost daily basis. Education is open and free to anyone who wants to learn. Such things as transportation, energy, housing and food are rapidly becoming freely available and affordable by even the poorest of people. Since previous events, Jonas has now moved to the US to recover from his ordeal under the care of Aaron Parker. The sisters Melissa Young and Sophia Riva are traveling together in order to bond and recover from their own experiences…

Grace Alban has spent 20 years away from her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior - for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter home, she finds more than just her own personal demons haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House. Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House during which a world-famous author took his own life and Grace's aunt disappeared without a trace…

This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach—and the moment it began to topple.