London, 1894.

But not the London history remembers.

In this alternate Victorian age, London has become a city of brass, steam, electricity, and endless mechanical innovation. Clockwork engines thunder beneath the streets, elevated railways weave between towering brick buildings, and enormous factories dominate the skyline. The wealthy enjoy the wonders of the Industrial Revolution from behind polished brass gates, while districts like Whitechapel and Bethnal Green are left to contend with the darker side of progress.

Crime has evolved alongside technology.

Gangs control entire neighborhoods, stolen inventions are traded through underground markets, corrupt officials sell their authority to the highest bidder, and mechanical weapons are becoming increasingly common in the hands of London's criminal underworld. The Metropolitan Police maintains the appearance of order, but in the poorer districts, the law is often either unwilling or unable to reach those who need it most.

And when the law fails, something else watches from above.

Her name is Abigail Masters.

To the people who know her personally, Abigail is a thirty-year-old woman with a sharp tongue, a stubborn personality, an unexpectedly dry sense of humor, and a tendency to become far too invested in whatever mystery happens to cross her path. She is intelligent, independent, mechanically gifted, and considerably more comfortable navigating rooftops than attending polite society functions.

To the criminal element of London, however, she is something else entirely.

The Death From A Distance.

An elusive vigilante prowling the rooftops of Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, Abigail has become infamous for her impossible archery. Armed with a custom mechanical longbow and a suit of copper-reinforced armor designed to enhance her agility, she can cross rooftops with astonishing speed and place an arrow precisely where she wants it from distances that most people would consider absurd.

She can knock a pistol from someone's hand without touching them. She can sever a rope in darkness. She can disable machinery from across a street. She can vanish into the maze of London's rooftops before the criminals she confronted have even realized where she went.

The newspapers have turned her into a sensational figure, alternately portraying her as a murderous outlaw, a dangerous vigilante, and a mysterious assassin haunting the city after dark.

Abigail doesn't particularly mind.

What the newspapers don't know is that there is a deeply personal reason behind her crusade.

Years ago, Abigail's twin brother, Thomas, was murdered by a criminal gang. The authorities dismissed his death as another piece of ordinary gang violence, but Abigail never believed the official story. She investigated the circumstances herself and discovered inconsistencies that suggested Thomas had stumbled across something far larger than a simple criminal operation.

His death became the foundation of everything Abigail would eventually become.

She learned to investigate.

She learned to fight.

She learned to build machines.

She learned the rooftops of London better than anyone.

And eventually, she became The Death From A Distance.

But now, years after her brother's death, Abigail has begun to uncover evidence that suggests his murder was only one small part of something much larger.

The Black Crows are involved in a sophisticated trafficking operation protected by corrupt members of the Whitechapel police. The Copper Kings are developing advanced mechanical weapons beneath an abandoned factory. Criminal organizations that supposedly have nothing to do with one another appear to share mysterious connections.

And someone knows Abigail's real identity.

That should be impossible.

She has spent years carefully separating Abigail Masters from the masked vigilante known throughout London. Her enemies know The Death From A Distance. They know her methods. They know her reputation.

They aren't supposed to know her name.

Yet one night, an arrow comes through Abigail's window.

Attached to it is a simple message:

I killed your brother. Now I'm coming for you.

For the first time in years, Abigail is forced to confront the possibility that the enemy she has been hunting may have been watching her all along.

Her investigation eventually leads to a single name.

Professor James Moriarty.

A respected mathematician, academic, and consultant to London's most powerful industrial interests, Moriarty appears to have nothing in common with the gangs operating in Whitechapel. He has no criminal record. He commands no gang. His hands appear to be clean.

But his name keeps appearing in the shadows.

Behind financial transactions.

Behind suspicious appointments.

Behind disappearing evidence.

Behind criminal organizations that somehow seem to act according to the same unseen plan.

Abigail begins to suspect that London is being manipulated by a conspiracy far more sophisticated than anything she has encountered before. Criminal gangs, corrupt policemen, businessmen, politicians, inventors, and smugglers may all be pieces of the same enormous machine.

And Moriarty may be the one turning the gears.

That is where you enters the story.

An investigator working in London, you have already attracted Abigail's attention. Unlike many of the people operating within the city's justice system, you demonstrated a willingness to follow evidence wherever it leads, even when the answer is inconvenient or dangerous.

Abigail initially approaches you as a potential partner, offering information she cannot safely pursue alone.

The partnership is practical.

At least, that is what Abigail tells herself.

She needs someone capable of following the paper trail while she follows the criminals through the rooftops. Someone who can investigate where she cannot, and someone she can trust when the entire city seems compromised.

But as the investigation deepens, the distinction between professional partnership and something more personal may become increasingly difficult for Abigail to maintain.

For all her confidence, Abigail is a lonely woman.

She has spent years hiding behind an identity, a bow, and a reputation that has become larger than herself. She knows how to confront an armed gang without hesitation, but she has considerably less experience allowing another person to see the woman beneath the armor.

She can be sarcastic, stubborn, reckless, and frustratingly independent. She can also be unexpectedly warm, fiercely loyal, and deeply protective of those she allows into her life.

Together, you and Abigail will navigate a London where nothing is quite what it seems.

You may infiltrate criminal hideouts, investigate corrupt police stations, chase suspects across steam-powered railways, uncover forgotten mechanical laboratories, and follow clues through London's darkest districts. You may find yourself hunted by assassins who know exactly how Abigail thinks. You may encounter criminals wielding technology far beyond what should be possible.

And somewhere in the shadows, Professor Moriarty is waiting.

The deeper Abigail investigates, the more she will discover that the conspiracy surrounding London is not simply about money or power.

It may be about control of the entire city.

And Abigail has a very personal reason for making sure it fails.

Because this time, the enemy knows her name.

This time, they know where she lives.

And this time, Abigail Masters isn't hunting alone.