First Person Paramount

Agar Hume’s life has been a relentless quest for identity. Born to a struggling musician and orphaned as a toddler, he discovers an uncanny talent for mimicry, turning the stages of Birmingham and Liverpool into his personal rehearsal rooms. When a brutal confrontation with his father forces him onto the streets, he drifts to London, penniless and clutching only a make‑up box and a threadbare suit.

Desperation lands him a position as a valet for the aristocratic Sir William Dagmar, and the moment he steps through the door of the Curzon Street house, Agar is swallowed by a cavernous library that seems more a museum than a servant’s quarters. Surrounded by towering shelves of dust‑covered volumes, his keen observational skills are suddenly put to a different test—one that hints at secrets hidden among the pages and the mysterious world of the household’s elite.