The Curious Conundrum of Charlemagne Crosse

<p><span style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)>Precocious Charlemagne Crosse had an idyllic childhood until the night her parents Sir Archibald and Lady Lavinia vanished in the aftermath of a solar eclipse. Shipped off to disreputable boarding schools Charlemagne's life is bleak. However on her sixteenth birthday Charlemagne unexpectedly regains her wealth and freedom. Upon her return to the ancestral Crosse mansion she's reunited with black sheep Uncle Alistair and his new family: his wife the exotic Antoinette and her peculiar daughter Simone. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)>Charlemagne is summoned to a meeting with the mercurial Queen Victoria who still grieves for her late husband Prince Albert. Victoria reveals that Sir Archibald an eccentric inventor was under Crown orders to devise a way to contact Albert in the afterlife. The Queen is convinced that only Charlemagne can decipher the clues that her father surely left behind. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(53 53 53 1)>Supported by a cast of diverse characters Charlemagne embarks on a perilous journey through the seedy underbelly of an alternate Victorian London. And with another solar eclipse looming it might be Charlemagne's best-and last-chance to reunite with her parents. </span></p>