Madeline Sharpe, a disgraced detective turned private investigator, is asked by a former colleague to consult on a perplexing homicide case. She reluctantly accepts the job. But while following her quarry's trail, she encounters things she can't explain, things that defy reason. She then finds herself transported to a hidden realm populated by wild landscapes and strange creatures. All she can do is fight for survival and seek a way back home before the universe and her sanity fully unravel.

James G. Carlson is an award-winning author of horror, science fiction, bizarro, and dark fantasy. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies. He has also released two collections of dark fiction, Seven Exhumations and The Ever-Descending Staircase. His novella Midnight in the City of the Carrion Kid was well-received by readers and nominated for a Splatterpunk Award. James has a split release with Daemon Manx, Hacked in Two, featuring his novella "Red Falls." Most recently, he appeared in a collaborative collection with Michael R. Collins, Miracles for Masochists. From the weird state of Pennsylvania, James drinks too much coffee and writes at a desk surrounded by animals and family in the mad zoo he calls home.