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Ashcroft & Grey

A Matter of Discretion

Thomas Grey has spent four years pretending to speak for the dead. Every ghostly whisper, every moving table, every miracle has been nothing more than his own carefully crafted deception.

When London’s most celebrated medium dismisses him without warning, sixteen-year-old Thomas is left with nowhere to go but the life he thought he’d left behind.

Henry Ashcroft should have been just another sitter.

Instead, he offers Thomas a home.

Thomas survived the streets by becoming whatever other people needed him to be. Henry Ashcroft is the first person who asks him to be himself.

With Thomas’s extraordinary talents and Henry’s connections, resources and quiet confidence, the two establish Ashcroft & Grey, a discreet agency where London’s most influential families bring the problems they cannot trust to the police and the secrets they cannot afford to make public.

As the cases grow more dangerous, Thomas discovers that the greatest risk is not breaking into a house or outwitting a blackmailer. It is trusting another person with the truth about himself.

Because some partnerships solve problems.

The rarest ones become family.