Gotham Town 1898
In the shadowed yeR of 1898, the forgotten town of Gotham- a decaying English hamlet steeped in centuries of whispered folly and cunning madness becomes the unlikely crucible where the bloodlines of the world's most infamous villains are forged.
Gekul, a broken ringmaster drowning in Gin and regret, leads his ragged circus of outcast clowns towards a desperate new life in America. A drunken pact sealed in blood with a shadowy stranger has bound him to perform in a gleaming, sinister city rising across the ocean. But as night falls and withdrawal claws at his mind. He is forced to camp in Gothams fog-choked lanes where the locals eccentricities hide darker secrets.
Meanwhile, Jack- fresh from a decade in chains for the savage Slaughter of Whitechapel prostitutes journey's to the same Liverpool steamer with his loyal, watchful driver, Boyal. A chance encounter with Annie, Gotham's haunting local beauty, stirs the monster he thought imprisoned. The old urges rise like bile, one more kill, one more thrill.
In this inbred, opium-laced backwater, where eccentricity masks depravity and every stranger carries a curse. Two doomed men converge on a night that will echo through generations. Their meeting ignited a twisted legacy one that will birth the clowns, the killers, and the caped crusaders eternal foes. Will Gekul escape the village's grip with his soul intact? Will Jack leash the Ripper within him.... or unleash it anew?
The origins of evil rarely begins with monsters. Sometimes they begin with men- and one fateful stop in Gotham.
The first in a dark gripping series remaining the roots of legend.
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