PART ONE: THE LOST GIRL - Chapter 1: Pursuit, Thaniel Gets a Cruel Surprise, First Impressions; Chapter 2: The Irrepressible Miss Bennett, Meet Doctor Pyke, A Name for the Girl Summary

"The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray" follows the adventures of wych-hunter Thaniel Fox and his partner, Cathaline Bennett, in an alternate nineteenth-century London. Thaniel rescues a beautiful young woman named Alaizabel Cray. Alaizabel has lost her memory and she is possessed by a wych named Thatch. Thaniel, Cathaline, and Alaizabel must unravel a plot by the Fraternity to take over the world while fighting a variety of wych-kin, discovering Alaizabel's past, and destroying the evil spirit that lives within Alaizabel.

In Chapter 1, Thaniel Fox, a seventeen-year-old wych-hunter, hunts his quarry...