In the dark streets of Corma exists a book that writes itself, a book
that some would kill for... Black market courier Rowena Downshire is
just trying to pay her mother's freedom from debtor's prison when an
urgent and unexpected delivery leads her face to face with a creature
out of nightmares. Rowena escapes with her life, but the strange book
she was ordered to deliver is stolen. The Alchemist knows things few men
have lived to tell about, and when Rowena shows up on his doorstep,
frightened and empty-handed, he knows better than to turn her away. What
he discovers leads him to ask for help from the last man he wants to
see--the former mercenary, Anselm Meteron. Across town, Reverend Phillip
Chalmers awakes in a cell, bloodied and bruised, facing a creature twice
his size. Translating the stolen book may be his only hope for survival;
however, he soon realizes the book may be a fabled text written by the
Creator Himself, tracking the nine human subjects of His Grand
Experiment. In the wrong hands, it could mean the end of humanity.
Rowena and her companions become the target of conspirators who seek to
use the book for their own ends. But how can this unlikely team be sure
who the enemy is when they can barely trust each other? And what will
happen when the book reveals a secret no human was meant to know?
