When Paul Verne comes home from overseas for the funeral of his billionaire father, his brother is not in attendance. In fact, John Verne has been missing from his prosperous new tech firm for weeks. Unbeknownst to Paul, John has found a device that can transport him to the Museum, a system of captured worlds collected by the Curators, members of a powerful alien race, and he has been using it to take his colleagues, Adrian Ash, Morris Miles, and Julia Wilde, on visits to the alien worlds in the museum. John and his friends especially enjoy the sensual pleasures of the White City. As he’s leaving John’s penthouse apartment, Paul is kidnapped by a cross-dimensional bounty hunter (cyborg, android, synthetic hybrid?) named Myn, and teleported to the Museum’s Gateway where he is told that John and his colleagues have transgressed against regulations by organizing Extreme Excursions that allow visitors to perform unspeakable acts of cruelty they cannot be held accountable for on Earth. Together, Paul and Myn must search the Museum worlds to find John and his colleagues and bring them to justice. Meanwhile, something has happened to begin powering down the system and some of the worlds are crumbling. As he explores strange worlds, Paul must come to grips with his brother’s likely responsibility for inhuman crimes and the ruination of the Museum’s protected worlds. When he falls in love with the enigmatic Myn, he fears she will never accompany him to his world because she has scanned all the depredations of Paul’s fellow Earthlings throughout history, information gathered by the operating system embedded behind her right eye.
