Trust no one. In the spring of 2011, Lexi Montaigne will learn to heed this warning. Following a devastating fire and the death of her gramps, Lexi inherits four chests brimming with files on the mysterious Mister Dorl, a man her grandfather claimed to have hunted for seventy years. An inheritance, perhaps, of madness. Then again, perhaps not.

Like the man cryogenically frozen inside its tower, Mythcorp has passed into urban legend. Its heir, however, is about to become headline news.