London, September 1666. A devastating fire is about to consume the city, but it is no accident. Elias Thorne, a disgraced King’s Investigator haunted by his past, discovers a murdered Royal Guard in a bakery on Pudding Lane moments before a mysterious incendiary device ignites the building. Teaming up with Sarah Hemlock, a brilliant but ostracized alchemist, Elias uncovers a treasonous plot by a shadow faction known as the Order of the Serpent. The Order plans to use the inferno as a city-wide distraction to infiltrate the Tower of London, assassinate the Duke of York, and steal the Crown Jewels to fund a rebellion. Hunted by the traitors and trapped in a rapidly burning metropolis, Elias and Sarah must navigate the collapsing, flame-choked streets of London to reach the Tower before the monarchy is dismantled and the city is reduced to nothing but ash.
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