The year is 1888. The Place is the East End of London. Dead and mutilated bodies are popping up all over the east end from Stamford to Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper is making his mark in the East End in ways that puts the city on edge, so to speak. Johnathon Rhoades has been exposed to mercury since he was a boy of sixteen working in his father's hat factory, which he now owns due to his father's unexpected death. The hats that are created at the factory...