Tom knows the society won’t let her live now that she knows about them, and he constantly worries about her while away on another assignment. Unable to continue lying, Tom confides in her. They grow close and discover Camille recognizes him from a photo of a 1920s pianist that hung in her former workplace. Camille finds him fascinating and strives to solve the mystery that surrounds him.
In spite of all this, he falls in love with the French teacher Camille. He struggles to engage his students as he battles the headaches caused by flashbacks that occur with each lesson. Tom’s present-day storyline follows his adjustment to modern London as a history teacher. Superstition, no matter the time period, always leads to them being hunted, cast out, or locked up. He constantly reminds Tom of a German institute that knows about them and experiments on the ones they catch. Hendrich fuels Tom’s fears of witchfinders and their modern equivalent, bio-scientists.
Hendrich, founder and leader of the society, promises to find her and reunite them, but as the story progresses, Tom is still no closer to finding her.
Tom agrees to join the Albatross Society for the sole reason of using their resources to find her. The main conflict, and the driving force behind Tom’s survival, is the search for his daughter Marion, who inherited his condition and is also on the run from discovery. Therefore, he must keep himself unattached. His condition hurts or kills everyone he loves. Every few years he leaves town and starts a new life with a new name, always worrying about the future and the consequences of being discovered. Tom frequently remembers his mother’s death at the hands of witchfinders and his forced separation from his wife and daughter. Scott Fitzgerald in Paris, where he plays piano at a hotel restaurant. He meets Shakespeare working as a lutist at the Globe. The flashback portions reveal Tom’s history from Elizabethan England to Golden Age Paris. Each section occurs in one setting and one timeframe, either in Tom’s present or his past. Within the first few pages, Tom is on such an assignment in Sri Lanka, but his target is already dead when he arrives. These assignments usually involve recruiting others with the condition or disposing of threats. As gratitude for the Albatross Society’s protection, each member must perform the occasional assignment. Those with the condition are protected by an organization that disposes of those who learn the truth. The general public is not ready for such knowledge human superstition is too rampant. His condition prevents him from aging at a normal pace he ages one year every 15 years or so. While he looks like an ordinary 40-year-old man, he has actually been alive for centuries. Tom Hazard begins his first-person narrative by describing his condition.
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