A journalist discovers that a Victorian England relation of hers escaped from the clutches of Jack the Ripper, and ultimately, Death itself. Now Patti Fuller must learn how to cheat Death too, by finding out how her great-great-grandmother did it all those years agoÏ¿½
After an investigative journalist narrowly cheats death in a terrorist attack she sees a great angle for a story by telling the survivors' tales in her magazine. When the survivors start turning up dead though she begins to suspect foul play and finds herself dragged into a world of spiritualism and conspiracies that ultimately leads back to Victorian England and Jack the Ripper.