Growing up amid industrial London's highest nobility, Laurence Lancaster enjoys a pampered existence shielded from the grisly truth of his lineage. His ancestors serve as the crown's ruthless state executioners, feared by high society as the Queen's Loyal Hounds. Laurence's peaceful reality implodes in blood when shadowy conspirators slaughter his parents and obliterate the Lancaster estate overnight.
Cast into the foggy streets as a penniless fugitive, the naive aristocrat sheds his gentility to survive Victorian London's unforgiving criminal underbelly. Laurence forms uneasy alliances with underworld figures and enigmatic protectors, piecing together the royal conspiracy that ordered his family's execution. To reclaim his title, he must master the blade and exact reckoning on the corrupt courtiers sitting near the throne.
