William Finehand is over two hundred years old. He spent the early part of his life exploring the world and collecting artefacts. His final, troubled voyage took him to the island of Sanguinary. There, Tarbone, a rebellious crew member who claimed to have slept with Finehand’s wife, stabbed him to death. As punishment, Tarbone was cut with a ceremonial knife. Over the following weeks he wasted away and died. His bones were ground to dust. It was the first part of the alchemy that brought Finehand back to life. The process was grotesque, and grisly. When Welbeck, the ship’s captain, chanced upon it, he was pushed to the brink of madness.

Finehand was not a particularly bad man. Certainly, he would not have been seen as such in the century he was born. However, time and circumstances made him a murderer. His tale sweeps across the centuries and is told in many voices, but the woman who might have loved him best fell silent, a victim to his burgeoning conscience….

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