When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of the End of Mr.Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about this author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas and this is his most notorious, and rarest book.A book... The End of Mr Y A heroine... Ariel Manto, perpetual PhD candidate (impoverished) A curse... mysterious deaths & disappearances A portal... into psychokinetic metaspace A race