Mackie is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he
comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living
dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess.
He is a Replacement--left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago.
Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground,
Mackie is slowly dying in the human world.
Mackie would give anything to live among us. He just wants to play bass
guitar and find out more about an oddly intriguing girl named Tate.
But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably
into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem.
He must face the dark creatures of the slag heaps and find his rightful
place, in our world, or theirs.