It should have been an open and shut case, death by fire, but the more Detective Jack Whitmore digs, the stranger things become. Every corner is a new piece to a puzzle of intrigue, conspiracies, cults, sex, and monsters from beyond. Darcroft sits in a cosmic horror crime noir world. A city with all the notes: the reluctant detective, the femme fatale, the corrupt cop, the underworld and overworld. It's a world where the outsiders have to hide who they are to survive, including the monsters.