History has a habit of leaving its inconvenient truths in the margins. Felix Gale understands this better than most. The journal he left for Charlie Watson — timed precisely for the moment she would find herself in the company of Irene Adler—was not a memoir, nor a confession, but a deliberate inheritance.
Within those pages lies the account of Felix’s pursuit of Lu, the immortal soldier whose wartime chronicle first surfaced in the trenches of the Great War. What begins as an inquiry into a vanished battalion becomes something far heavier: a trial that illuminates his Portion of Divinity. Felix confronts a choice no mortal could bear and no ageless should refuse—the power to decide which millions would live and which would die.
As he crosses an ocean under fire, traverses a fractured America, and follows the faintest traces of a friend who had seen too much, Felix cannot help but offer his wry wisdom to those around him. It is this journey that grants him both his great trial and a new clarity of purpose. And buried within that clarity is the secret he meant for Charlie and Irene to uncover together—a truth capable of restoring something they believed lost forever.
For when it comes to the ageless, their secrets have secrets.