Mitchell Graves is a brilliant private investigator but his life is shit. He been in New Orleans, eking out a cash existence for the last five years, hiding from a past that nearly killed him when a mysterious client in LA hires him for a job he can’t wrap his head around. What happened to the CIA kill team that disappeared in the Nevada desert? Why did the special agent-in-charge take his own life in a roadside motel? And why has this job come to him in particular? People keep turning up dead, and as Mitch discovers his connections to each victim, he can’t escape the feeling that the truth may not be something he wants to know.
Back in the 1950s, When Tom and Ivy infiltrate Los Alamos Labs to stop the theft of the nuclear material that’s being used to open the Doorways, they accidentally discover something far worse. Now they’re marked for death, racing through the corridors of time, struggling to prevent a future apocalypse and stop an undying evil.
Isaac Roth is haunted, by a past he can’t make sense of, by a lost career as a government scientist, and by his own brilliant, runaway mind. Now he lives on government disability in a tiny apartment in LA, trying desperately to make something new and meaningful out of his life as a screenwriter. But this is the city of illusions, and Isaac is having trouble telling the dreams of Hollywood from its nightmares.
Three different lives, separated by time, are bound together by one terrifying secret that echos across decades. As they uncover the truth, each of them will slip closer to the same nightmare waiting at the center of it all.
Elements of: Atomic Age, Mental Illness, Noir, Possession, Psychic Powers, Thriller, Time Travel