kidnapping snuff films amputee geeks and a requiem of lost lovecast adrift after the blood symphony of penny dreadful phineas poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman he tracks jude to san francisco where he finds her involved with john ransom miller a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious hold over her jude is nursing her own revenge fantasy but she needs millers help and in exchange miller wants jude to help him with an unspeakable crime alone and outgunned poe hopes he can save jude from herself make sense of his past and navigate a torturous internal landscape he calls hells half acre