The Surgeon of Ashcombe House: They Stole a Relic of the Reich—now It’s Rewriting Their Blood.

In 1992 London, fixer Jack Mercer takes an “easy” theft for a client who barely exists: recover a black case from a shadowy warehouse deal. Inside are Nazi-stamped files and glass vials of a shimmering serum marked AETERNUM. When a vial breaks, Jack and his crew—Clara Voss and the impulsive Mason—are exposed to something that doesn’t just poison them. It changes them.Their mystery client vanishes, and the stolen documents point north to a sealed estate on the Northumberland moors: Ashcombe House. The man who welcomes them is Dr. Victor Hallen, a respected pathologist with immaculate manners—and a basement full of humming machinery, preserved bodies, and experiments decades in the making. As their veins begin to glow with a faint gold pulse and their minds fracture under heightened perception, they realize the heist was never about money. It was a field test.With the return of the collector who financed it all, Clara uncovers the truth: Hallen is not simply extending life—he’s replicating himself, building a lineage of perfected vessels powered by a serum born in wartime laboratories. When Ashcombe House revolts into fire and the lab’s containment fails, Jack and Clara fight to destroy the work—only to learn the worst possible outcome.The house can burn. The experiment can’t.Because Aeternum doesn’t die—it transfers.