'Sixteen's an interesting age: not quite a fully grown man, but not a
kid anymore neither. Anything is possible when you're sixteen.'
Finmere Tingewick Smith was abandoned on the steps of the Old Bailey.
Under the guardianship of the austere Judge Harlequin Brown and the
elderly gentlemen of Orrery House, Fin has grown up under a very strange set of rules. He spends alternate years at two very different schools
and now he's tired of the constant lies to even his best friends, to
hide the insanity of his double life. Neither would believe the truth!
But on his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. The Judge is
killed, stabbed in the chest with a double-edged sword that's
disturbingly familiar, and from that moment on, Fin is catapulted into
an extraordinary adventure. Through the Doorway in Fin's London, a hole
in the boundaries of Existence, lies another London – and now both are
in grave danger.
For the Knights of Nowhere have kidnapped the
Storyholder, the keeper of the Five Eternal Stories which weave the
worlds together. Because of the Knights' actions, a black storm is
coming, bringing madness with it.
Fin may be just 16, but he has a
long, dark journey ahead of him if he is to rescue the Storyholder and
save Existence!
