we were born with sun in our teeth

Further out, a few people are catching waves. Shane’s attention locks on a broad shouldered figure, his golden hair glinting in the late afternoon light. He’s riding the wave like it’s an extension of himself, smooth and powerful. “You aren’t there yet,” Rose says. Her smile is complicated. “Ilya’s a force of nature.”

In 1988, cold case detective Shane Hollander is brought down to LA to consult on a series of bank robberies by a group known as the Comrades. Shane goes undercover to infiltrate the tight-knit surfing community in Malibu and gets more than he bargained for, leading him to reconsider all the choices he's made in life since he gave up on hockey.

“I have been called away on business to London. I may be gone for several months,” Ilya puts a hand in his pocket. The silver pocket watch he keeps there is cold against his fingertips. He remembers having it engraved four years ago, when he finally accepted that he had lost his old one back in Oxford and would never be getting it back.

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London, 1906

The most recent edition of a mathematics journal that Shane subscribes to is on the window seat. He wanders over to it to browse the table of contents. His copy has yet to arrive in the post. Flipping the cover, the words become a blur but for one line.

Rozanov, I., A Note on the Theorem Concerning Artificial Singularities

Sometimes, it feels as though Shane is being haunted.

a condition of mercy

London, 1906

Famed consulting detective Shane Hollander is hired by Countess Rose Landry to solve the mystery of her husband’s murder. But the case is only a small thread in a complex web of crime connected to some of the most powerful people in Europe. A web which Shane is determined to unravel.

His single-minded focus is upended by the reappearance of his university rival and secret ex-lover, Ilya Rozanov, now a renowned mathematician with a mysterious source of income. Ilya claims to be in London to give a series of lectures, but Shane suspects that Ilya is using his intelligence for more than just theory.

The magnetic pull between them is just as strong as ever, and Shane’s search for the truth is at war with his selfish desire to keep Ilya out of trouble and all to himself.

Or, Sherlock and Moriarty but they’re having sex the whole time.