Breadcrumbs and Red Herrings

Alex, a former MI6 operative with a complicated past, and Shimmy, a ginger cat who occasionally becomes human (and always a philosopher), receive a seemingly simple assignment: obtain a complete dossier on every witch in existence. But nothing goes as planned. Their encounter with Matilda — a witch, HR manager, archivist, and keeper of magical secrets — triggers a chain of events involving: angels at war, witches with corporate structures, the Heavenly Chancellery, the Department of Holy Inquisition, British intelligence, and a suspicious USB drive capable of reshaping the world. Across London cemeteries, St. Petersburg‘s canals, and the windswept plains of Patagonia, Alex, and Shimmy navigate questions of duty, freedom, love, guilt, and the absurdity of existence. This is a story about choosing between North and South, between past and future, between fate and chance — and about how sometimes the world is saved not by heroes, but by those who simply happened to be nearby.