During a televised British quiz show, Asher Leek dies of a brain aneurysm but not before reciting esoteric Sanskrit verse with his dying breath. How the twenty-one-year-old had the atrophied brain of a ninety-year-old is beyond the medical examiner, but Asher’s grandmother has her own ideas.
The matriarch of the Yorkshire Leeks reaches across the pond to the Salt Mine for arcane answers, and one doesn’t ignore a summons from one of the oldest and wealthiest magical families in England."
David Wilson is given the assignment.