Given the power over the undead in an England overrun with zombies, how far will one man go to get his inheritance back?
Byron Ulysses Llewellyn-Cave is a disinherited cad with the strange ability to control the undead corpses that have been plaguing steampunk Victorian England for years. He finds Marietta, a bird-watcher and assassin extraordinaire, and together they calamitously careen through a zombie-parts black market, fight a swashbuckling Spaniard who's allergic to the walking dead, and outwit a mad scientist trying to restore life to the ramshackle corpses.
All in the pursuit of a bounty given by Victoria herself that will make all of Byron's problems go away.
Long live Byron the Cad. The Cad is dead.
