The Devil At Prayers

<p>Emily Watson lives in a quaint English manor house with her twin sister confined to a 20-mile radius around the estate for reasons she has never known. When the mysterious Professor Moriarty comes to visit and her sister goes missing she discovers she is the half-sister of Dr. John Watson.</p><p><br></p><p>Traveling to London to meet him she finds that he is the biographer and flatmate of famed consulting detective Sherlock Holmes in whom Professor Moriarty has expressed a sinister interest.</p><p><br></p><p>Soon after her arrival Emily becomes embroiled in the kidnapping of a Russian diplomat which could cause political havoc if the culprit is not quickly brought to justice. The case has ties to her past and a curious thread throughout that threatens to topple the already precarious balance of Europe's empires.</p><p><br></p><p>This short novel is a revolutionary re-introduction to a universe that has been the object of fascination for over a hundred years and promises a series full of diverse circumstances and many twists and turns before the final problem is addressed.</p>