Eight years ago the world changed in seconds. Hundreds of millions of people from across the world spontaneously vanished. Exactly what happened -and how- has been a subject of intense and pretty much pointless debate. In that time the world has learned that it must move on - cautiously, fearfully, coming to terms as best as it can with hundreds of millions of "Arrivist's" who are something other than 'human'. 

Detective Nathan Barrow has forged a new life, one that he had no way of expecting, and for him at least, it's good. He's married, works with his brother in law, and lives mere blocks from the crime scene. Sure, his house is a bizarre stone monster that looks like a cross between a medieval castle and a post WWII Bungalow. Sure, his partner is a little hairy and his wife comes up to his bellybutton. But this is the new world. As a long time Milwaukee resident he's been on the front line of the changes, and he figures he's faced them pretty well. Even if he can't say as much for his fellow Nativist residents. 

But then an 800 year old pointy eared general ends up dead mere blocks from his still unfinished home with a mysterious hole in his head. In unravelling this crime he'll need everything he's got and then some, new friends, new family, and old fashioned detective work and in doing so he may still unravel all that he and the community has been toiling to build. 

Included on this page - i hope - i'll have lots of miscellany from the story. There will be tales, anecdotes, and all the goodies that should be great for people who like to get a little more into the story. Once (and if) it actually comes out i figure the dear readers will have a better idea of what i'm talking about. 

I'm also guessing that this will be the first of a series. I've been finding a lot of material bubbling up to the surface on this one and it's hard to keep it shut up and bottled up which is just weird because this is not exactly a genre i've chosen. It's sort of chosen me. I even tried fighting it but it's fought back over and over and over again and keeps winning. 

Springtime in Milwaukee. A few months from the events of the first novel. Nate and his motley crew of Arrivist cops have been transferred out of Homicide and into the new Office of Arrivist Affairs where they consult on police matters throughout the city. Unfortunately for Nate's wife, Roxy they also consult sometimes outside of the city and when two sketchy tourists in Deadwood, S.D. are pierced by arrows it's off to the Black Hills for a team of odd looking detectives.

That doesn't mean crime in Milwaukee has stopped, though. A series of grisly murders throughout the city has everyone on edge, including Chance, Roxy, Bobby, Sasha and a Kishkitsahken warrior/mother named Izzy. Whatever it is it's not content to simply kill but obliterates its victims. Can the group of them track it down and stop it? Does it have something to do with Nate's work in South Dakota?