Grave robbers looking for jewels while breaking into mausoleums in a 200-year-old cemetery stumble onto the remains of a body that shouldn’t be there: a teenaged girl. They take off, leaving the door to the mausoleum open. The cemetery night watchman finds the body and calls the police who in turn call Del Coltrane, the 33-year-old funeral director of Henderson’s Funeral Home. Although Del isn’t used to murder, he’s used to death, so initially this is just another corpse. But after the victim is identified as a local teen long thought to be a runaway, Del is pulled into the case as a favor to the tough-as-nails 15-year-old niece of the dead girl. Gradually he realizes a serial killer has been preying on the women in his town for 20 years. D.B. Gilles is the author of the comic novel I Hate My Book Club . He teaches Screenwriting & Comedy Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. A produced and published playwright, he is also one of the most in-demand script consultants and writing coaches in the country. He wrote the popular screenwriting book The Screenwriter Within 2nd Edition: New Strategies to Finish Your Screenplay & Get A Deal . He has also written books on filmmaking ( The Portable Film School ) and comedy ( You’re Funny! Turn Your Sense of Humor Into a Lucrative New Career ).

A 21-year-old woman, Eliza, disappears. Seven years later a man dies by the Egyptian obelisk in New York City's Central Park. He wears clothing from the late 19th century, has French francs and coins from the year 1887 in his pocket plus receipts from The Louvre and a French restaurant dated 1889. And next to his body is an ornate piece of jewelry: The Brimstone. But the events are linked. The woman's sister, Juliet, approaches the man's son, Dalton, with a theory: his father found a way to transport her sister to Paris in 1889.Dalton contacts an expert, Proctor, and realizes Juliet's theory is real. Also in pursuit of The Brimstone is a grisly mercenary with orders to find it at any cost. Dalton, Juliet and Proctor gather at midnight by the obelisk in Central Park, the portal. They're about to leave when the mercenary appears and grabs the Brimstone. All four are transported back to Paris, 1889 with no way to get back.