Conflagration
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World War 1 has broken out, but seems oddly far away for Egyptologist James Grimshaw, living in Halifax and working on research. However, a strange machine slides across his desk, and he ends up in the company of a rather unusual female machinist, who begin to uncover a centuries buried supernatural mystery, which could lead to the destruction of the entire world.
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