"Sitting on the still beat-up couch from the aftermath of the Rowdy 3 attack, Todd Brotzman held his head in his hands looking and feeling as hopeless as he did that fateful day when his car was vandalized, he saw himself, lost his job, and met the man he missed the most."

"If a year ago anyone told Todd Brotzman that he would be following a map and digging up buried treasure with an eccentric, auburn-haired, not-psychic-but-something, holistic detective he would have rolled his eyes and called their bluff."

"Looking up at the blank ceilings and plain walls in his empty cell, the Holistic Detective found himself exceedingly bored, given the only objects of interest around him were the thin lights on the walls and the tiny black Icarus symbol on his door."

A Blur: That's what it all feels like as the burns sear holes through the brunette's flesh. Excruciating and painful, the man's screams of pain intermingle with those of his sister crying to him desperately on the other line.

On the late December night of the Sochi Grand Prix Final banquet, the aging silver-haired gold medalist wasn't having it. Exhausted from being hounded by the press about his future and his feelings, the last thing he wanted to do was dress up in a suit, socialize with people and receive their surface level congratulations and smiles.

The warm pink of a follow spot and the harmonious blend of the strings and the keys beckons the gentleman out on the ice towards his prince clad in deep shades of royal blue. Their minds and hearts are lost in the other as their bodies move seamlessly in time with the music said they are one.

Alfendi Layton is a Scotland Yard Inspector with a split personality disorder but what happens when a young Detective Constable names Lucy Baker walks into his life and becomes his assistant. Follow the novelization of Mystery Room from Alfendi's POV, starting from Case 3. Lucifendi