The years is 2026, Ten years after the rifts between realities started showing up across the entire world. The officers of the ExoReality Containment Agency are tasked with handling the dark terrors and creatures that emerge from them. Marcus Black is one of the newest members of the Mhanke Heights ExoReality Containment Department, a man known for a past as dark as the monster coiled inside him. On his first case he'll learn that not every monster is what it seems, nor is every victim.

Victor Ward is an author and software craftsman in the Concord, California. He lives with his two boys nicknamed Hurricane and Hobbit and a wife who lists her specialty as 'setting students' on fire. He denies any accusations of arming his two cats.