As Jack and his coven travel further through the Yellow Corridor and the Gold Mist beyond, the boundaries between past and present collapse. Now they must rescue a traveler lost in time – then survive the forces that rescue has awakened in a Dim City long thought to be just a myth.

Fleeing Hadrian’s web of lies, Suzanne has come back to Calhoun and The Garret to comfort her dying Aunt Clarisse and make peace with Jack and Norma. She’s not come alone, though, for within Russell’s Mindpower group another has secretly coalesced, “Magus” Madden its leader. Now his Crypt Crew meets The Garret Gang in joy and friendship. But will that friendship last?

Sue’s nightmares have meanwhile become something more: scenes like snapshots of a life far gone, far different from the one she leads now. Are they memories of a prior existence, a proof of reincarnation? Alaine’s scroll promised rebirth “in the same time and place as your loved ones, that you may meet and remember and love anew.” Has that promise been fulfilled?

And in the Mist the mountain witch Melusine, rescued from beyond time and death, begins to stir in her sleep. What age-old secrets will rise Out of Darkness when she wakes…and remembers?