Neverwhere

Richard  Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull  job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles  across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her - and the  life he knows vanishes like smoke.

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Several  hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard  Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work,  taxi drivers won't stop for him, his landlord rents his apartment out to  strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a  London of shadows and darkness, a city of monsters and saints, murderers  and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer  canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks  of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is  Neverwhere.

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For  this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in  the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky,  candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her  family's slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld  kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. And with nowhere  else to turn, Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Door's entourage in  their determined - and possibly fatal - quest.

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For  the dread journey ever-downward - through bizarre anachronisms and  dangerous incongruities, and into dusty corners of stalled time - is  Richard's final hope, his last road back to a "real" world that is  growing disturbingly less real by the minute.

Adapted by Robert Kauzlaric from the novel by Neil Gaiman.