Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his reluctant partner But instead of focusing on her recovery, Michelle unearths disturbing secrets in the hospital Sean accepts a much-needed job A physicist, Monk Turing, has died in mysterious circumstances near Babbage Town a secretive establishment populated by an eccentric group of scientists and cryptographers, funded by an anonymous but powerful group Meanwhile the dead man's young daughter, piano-playing prodigy Viggie, has secrets of her own