The Sum of Broken Rooms
In Tudor London’s infamous Bedlam Asylum, brilliance and madness are two sides of the same coin. Astrolabe Wryght, a gifted mathematician consumed by an unrelenting need for ritual, sees order where others see chaos. When his sister Winnie visits him, she uncovers a world where faith and reason blur — and the cost of compassion is perilously high. A haunting prequel to The Case of Lord Simon, this story reveals the fragile humanity within madness and the beauty that survives even in ruin.