Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Decalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stanlks the streets, akiller who carefully selects his vicitms for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nosense O' Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immaortal race of beings, and killers that are more and less than human. Soon it will be clear that as carzy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn't merely a homicidal maniac but his deraged maker.