Where Light Asks Eternity

England, 1939. Robert Henley-Finch returns to Beaumont Hall, the country estate that made him and never forgave him. The house is waking-whispers in the stairwell, a plaque that shines with unspoken scripture, a painting that answers back. And Robert's sleep is no longer his own. Dreams carry him into another life: a gardener's orphan named Jacob, a girl at an upstairs window, and an escape purchased with blood. In London, a waitress named Jenny steals a book from men who wear crimson robes and serve an older order. Together with Robert's school friend Charlie-a scholar with a liar's grin-they stumble onto a ledger of pledges, a star that isn't a star, and a chalice that never stays empty for long. As war gathers, an older conflict opens beneath Beaumont's floors. Angels may be real-or something worse that wears their light. To save Jenny-and the past that refuses to stay past-Robert must learn what the house already knows: who he is, and what the light will ask in return.