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In the gas-lit shadows of 1810 London, an ancient horror stirs beneath cobblestone streets. Children are vanishing from poorhouses and orphanages, their souls harvested by creatures that wear aristocratic flesh like ill-fitting masks. But these are no common vampires - they serve something older, darker, hungering in depths that remember when mankind's ancestors still feared the night.
Into this nightmare steps Father Michael Augustine, a priest whose faith is about to be tested by horrors beyond mortal understanding. He joins the veterans of Bright - Captain James Hamilton, whose eternal youth masks centuries of pain; William Cross and Sarah Chen, hardened by battles across three continents; Duncan McKenna, whose booming shotgun has spoken humanity's defiance to cosmic horrors; and Coporal Hicks, even after surviving the horrible darkness that mangled his arm, still carries his ol' trusty pistol with precision and might. Together they face an enemy that transforms London's undercity into a maze of impossible geometries and darker purposes.
But victory demands sacrifice. As team members fall or suffer fates worse than death, those who remain must decide what price they'll pay to keep humanity's light burning. Some wars can't be won - only endured. And in London's depths, ancient powers are about to learn why Bright's soldiers are willing to burn so others might live in light.